On the Luminosity of Young Jupiters (2006)
Marley, M. S., Fortney, J. J., Hubickyj, O., Bodenheimer, P., Lissauer, J. J.
Traditional thermal evolution models of giant planets employ arbitrary initial conditions selected more for computational expediency than physical accuracy. Since the initial conditions are...
Fortney, J. J., Cooper, C. S., Showman, A. P., Marley, M. S., Freedman, R. S.
We explore the infrared spectrum of a three-dimensional dynamical model of planet HD209458b as a function of orbital phase. The dynamical model predicts day-side atmospheric pressure-temperature...
Young Jupiters are Faint: New Models of the Early Evolution of Giant Planets (2005)
Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Hubickyj, O., Bodenheimer, P., Lissauer, J. J.
Here we show preliminary calculations of the cooling and contraction of a 2 MJ planet. These calculations, which are being extended to 1-10 MJ, differ from other published "cooling tracks" in that...
Atmosphere, Interior, and Evolution of the Metal-Rich Transiting Planet HD 149026b (2005)
Fortney, J. J., Saumon, D., Marley, M. S., Lodders, K., Freedman, R. S.
We investigate the atmosphere and interior of the new transiting planet HD 149026b, which appears to be very rich in heavy elements. We first compute model atmospheres at metallicities ranging from...
Comparative Planetary Atmospheres: Models of TrES-1 and HD209458b (2005)
Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Lodders, K., Saumon, D., Freedman, R.
We present new self-consistent atmosphere models for transiting planets TrES-1 and HD209458b. The planets were recently observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope in bands centered on 4.5 and 8.0...
Theoretical Radii of Transiting Giant Planets: The Case of OGLE-TR-56b (2004)
Burrows, A., Hubeny, I., Hubbard, W. B., Sudarsky, D., Fortney, J. J.
We calculate radius versus age trajectories for the photometrically-selected transiting extrasolar giant planet, OGLE-TR-56b, and find agreement between theory and observation, without introducing an...
On the Indirect Detection of Sodium in the Atmosphere of the Planetary Companion to HD 209458 (2002)
Fortney, J. J., Sudarsky, D., Hubeny, I., Cooper, C. S., Hubbard, W. B., Burrows, A., ...
Using a self-consistent atmosphere code, we construct a new model of the atmosphere of the transiting extrasolar giant planet HD 209458b to investigate the disparity between the observed strength of...
Theory of Extrasolar Giant Planet Transits (2001)
Hubbard, W. B., Fortney, J. J., Lunine, J. I., Burrows, A., Sudarsky, D., Pinto, P. A.
We present a synthesis of physical effects influencing the observed lightcurve of an extrasolar giant planet (EGP) transiting its host star. The synthesis includes a treatment of Rayleigh scattering,...