2011-2012
From Exoplanet Reading Group
This is an archived year. If you want the current schedule, click here: Current_schedule.
10/31/11
"Carbon-rich Giant Planets: Atmospheric Chemistry, Thermal Inversions, Spectra, and Formation conditions" by Madhusudhan et al., ApJ in press.
Jacob Bean
11/14/11
" Suppression of the water ice and snow albedo feedback on planets orbiting red dwarf stars and the subsequent widening of the habitable zone " Joshi & Haberle
Dorian Abbot
11/28/11
"Polarized Reflected Light from the Exoplanet HD189733b: First Multicolor Observations and Confirmation of Detection" Berdyugina et al. 2011
Andreas Seifahrt
12/12/11
"Secular Chaos and the Production of Hot Jupiters" Wu & Lithwick 2011
Yoram Lithwick of Northwestern University
1/9/12
"Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler" Howard et al. 2012
Laura Kriedberg
1/23/12
"A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets" Koskinen, Aylward, & Miller 2007
Rob Wordsworth
2/6/12
"Climate instability on tidally locked exoplanets" Kite, Gaidos, & Manga 2011
Daniel Koll
2/20/12
"Equatorial Superrotation on Tidally Locked Exoplanets" Showman & Polvani 2011
Andrew Malone
[[ 2/29/12
"Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs"
John Johnson KICP colloquium ]]
3/5/12
"Atmospheric Escape from Hot Juptiers" Murray-Clay, Chiang, Murray 2009
Ray Pierrehumbert
3/19/12
"Hot Jupiter Magnetospheres" Trammell, Arras, and Li 2011
Arieh Konigl
4/2/12
"Deserts and pile-ups in the distribution of exoplanets due to photoevaporative disc clearing" Alexander & Pascucci 2012
Alissa Bans
4/16/12
"The Flat Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth GJ1214b from Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope" Berta et al. (2012)
Jacob Bean
4/30/12
"Atmospheric Dynamics of Earth-Like Tidally Locked Aquaplanets" Merlis & Schneider 2010
Dorian Abbot
5/14/12
"Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World" by Cowan et al., 2009
Bob Wordsworth
6/2/12
"On the likelihood of plate tectonics on super-Earths: Does size matter?" Korenaga, ApJ Letters, 2010
Fred Ciesla
6/18/12
"The Effects of Snowlines on C/O in Planetary Atmospheres" Oberg et al. (2011).
Alissa Bans
[[ 6/26/12
"The Wild and Crazy Days of the Early Solar System: The Signatures of an Ancient Bombardment on the Moon and Vesta"
Simone Marchi, visitor from SwRI ]]
If you want the current schedule, click here: Current_schedule.
