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The escape of heavy atoms from the ionosphere of HD209458b. I. A photochemical–dynamical model of the thermosphere

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In this paper, the authors present a hydrodynamic escape model for the upper atmosphere that includes all of the detected species in order to explain their presence at high altitudes, and to further constrain the temperature and velocity profiles.
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This article is published in Icarus.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydrodynamic escape & Atmosphere.

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The PLATO 2.0 mission

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Extreme Water Loss and Abiotic O2 Buildup on Planets Throughout the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs

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Spectrally resolved detection of sodium in the atmosphere of HD 189733b with the HARPS spectrograph

TL;DR: In this article, the authors obtained a high-resolution transit spectrum of HD 189733b in the region around the resonance doublet of Nai at 589 nm, to characterize the absorption signature that was previously detected from space at low resolution.
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The imprint of exoplanet formation history on observable present-day spectra of hot Jupiters

TL;DR: In this article, a chain of models, linking the formation of a planet to its observable present-day spectrum, is presented, including the planet's formation and migration, its long-term thermodynamic evolution, a variety of disk chemistry models, a non-gray atmospheric model, and a radiometric model to obtain simulated spectroscopic observations with James Webb Space Telescope and ARIEL.
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Atomic data for astrophysics. II. New analytic fits for photoionization cross sections of atoms and ions

TL;DR: In this article, a complete set of analytic fits to the nonrelativistic photoionization cross sections for the ground states of atoms and ions of elements from H through Si, and S, Ar, Ca, and Fe were presented.
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The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases

R. H. Fowler
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TL;DR: Chapman and Cowling as mentioned in this paper showed that the ultimate scope of the descendent of the kinetic theory of gases must be the whole field of the properties of matter in bulk, derived from the atomic constitution of matter and from properties of atoms and their interactions.
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Detection of an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere

TL;DR: In this paper, high-precision spectrophotometric observations of four planetary transits of HD 209458, in the region of the sodium resonance doublet at 589.3 nm, were reported.
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An extended upper atmosphere around the extrasolar planet HD209458b

TL;DR: The detection of atomic hydrogen absorption in the stellar Lyman α line during three transits of HD209458b is reported, showing that this absorption should take place beyond the Roche limit and therefore can be understood in terms of escaping hydrogen atoms.
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Ionospheres: Physics, Plasma Physics, and Chemistry

TL;DR: The terrestrial ionosphere at middle and low latitudes and planetary ionospheres at high latitudes have been studied in this article for the first time, and the results show that the terrestrial ionosphere at low and mid-latitudes is more stable than the high-latitude ionosphere.
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