no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Daniel P. Thorngren, Jonathan J. Fortney, Eric D. Lopez, Travis A. Berger, Daniel Huber
In this work, we examine the observed population of hot Jupiters to see if they grow as their parent stars brighten along the main sequence.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2020 • Thaddeus D. Komacek, Daniel P. Thorngren, Eric D. Lopez, Sivan Ginzburg
We find that deeper heating is required to re-inflate hot Jupiters than is needed to suppress their cooling, and that the timescale of re-inflation decreases with increasing heating rate and depth.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
