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Would ocean tides on the moon of a gas giant really be kilometers high?
I was reading an article on exomoon habitability constrained by illumination and tidal heating. The article imagines an Earth-like exomoon around Jupiter-like host planet. That got me thinking about ...
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How to obtain exoplanets transmission spectra from JWST's NIRISS data of WASP96?
I was having a look at JWST's NIRISS data of WASP96 (specifically at the x1dints fits file which should be already calibrated). From this, I would like to obtain a result in a fashion similar to the ...
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When do planets formed via core accretion in a proto-planetary disk stop gaining mass?
I was just trying to go over some of the contents in my exo planets course and wanted to know that if all the planets that form via core accretion continue to attract all the dust in a proto-planetary ...
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What is a simple way to estimate $σ_{RV}$ assuming photon noise in radial velocity measurements?
Hello there i have been trying to figure out what is wanted in the question "Simple way to estimate σ_RV assuming photon noise" for a presentation. But i can not seems to find much, but i ...
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Winds or waves in specific conditions?
Winds are mainly produced by differences in temperature of the atmosphere and waves are mainly produced by winds.
However, could a rogue planet (without orbiting any star and with a cold core so no ...
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Research on exoplanets using available data from TESS
I am a high school student who is proposing research on exoplanets for my junior research project, I have several questions:
I have seen studies where researchers survey star systems and then find ...
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Datasets for calculation of exoplanet properties
I would like to create program for calculation exoplanet properties, but I only found transit dataset from Kepler on NASA website. From light curve I can calculate:
planet radius $r$ from $\frac{r_{...
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Rayleigh Scattering and Red Giants
Rayleigh scattering is responsible for the color of the sky. Consider a planet with an atmospheric composition similar to Earth's but orbiting a red giant. Suppose further that the planet is in the ...
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Toroidal planetary systems
Is it possible that two toroidal, rigid, homogeneous planets are forming a system in which the toroids are chained through each other, and during their mutual motion, the planets are never touching ...
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