The Climates and Habitability of Small Exoplanets Around Red Stars

Project Information

EXOKLEIN

Grant agreement ID: 771620

DOI 10.3030/771620

Project closed

EC signature date 9 January 2018

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 984 729,00

EU contribution € 1 984 729,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET BERN
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Lithologic Controls on Silicate Weathering Regimes of Temperate Planets

Author(s): Kaustubh Hakim, Dan J. Bower, Meng Tian, Russell Deitrick, Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Daniel Kitzmann, Caroline Dorn, Klaus Mezger, Kevin Heng
Published in: The Planetary Science Journal, Issue 2/2, 2021, Page(s) 49, ISSN 2632-3338
Publisher: AAS Journals
DOI: 10.3847/psj/abe1b8

The THOR + HELIOS general circulation model: multiwavelength radiative transfer with accurate scattering by clouds/hazes

Author(s): Russell Deitrick; Kevin Heng; Urs Schroffenegger; Daniel Kitzmann; Simon L Grimm; Matej Malik; João M Mendonça; Brett M Morris
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.02293

Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide-locked rocky planets

Author(s): Auclair-Desrotour, P. Deitrick, R. Heng, K.
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue Volume 663, id.A79, 32 pp., 2022, ISSN 1432-0746
Publisher: European Southern Observatory
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243099

Retention of water in terrestrial magma oceans and carbon-rich early atmospheres

Author(s): Dan J. Bower; Kaustubh Hakim; Paolo A. Sossi; Patrick Sanan
Published in: The Planetary Science Journal, 3 (4), Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2632-3338
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000583218

Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets

Author(s): Kevin Heng; Kevin Heng; Kevin Heng; Brett M. Morris; Daniel Kitzmann
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.02673

Habitability and Water Loss Limits on Eccentric Planets Orbiting Main-sequence Stars

Author(s): Igor Z. Palubski, Aomawa L. Shields, Russell Deitrick
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 890/1, 2020, Page(s) 30, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: AAS Journals
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab66b2

How do we optimally sample model grids of exoplanet spectra?

Author(s): Chloe Elizabeth Fisher; Kevin Heng
Published in: Astrophysical Journal, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.12194

${\mathtt{s}}{\mathtt{t}}{\mathtt{a}}{\mathtt{r}}{\mathtt{r}}{\mathtt{y}}$: Analytic Occultation Light Curves

Author(s): Rodrigo Luger, Eric Agol, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David P. Fleming, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Russell Deitrick
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 157/2, 2019, Page(s) 64, ISSN 1538-3881
Publisher: AAS Journals
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aae8e5

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b

Author(s): H. Jens Hoeijmakers, David Ehrenreich, Kevin Heng, Daniel Kitzmann, Simon L. Grimm, Romain Allart, Russell Deitrick, Aurélien Wyttenbach, Maria Oreshenko, Lorenzo Pino, Paul B. Rimmer, Emilio Molinari, Luca Di Fabrizio
Published in: Nature, Issue 560/7719, 2018, Page(s) 453-455, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0401-y

Final spin states of eccentric ocean planets

Author(s): P. Auclair-Desrotour, J. Leconte, E. Bolmont, S. Mathis
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 629, 2019, Page(s) A132, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935905

THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-source General Circulation Model

Author(s): Russell Deitrick, João M. Mendonça, Urs Schroffenegger, Simon L. Grimm, Shang-Min Tsai, Kevin Heng
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 248/2, 2020, Page(s) 30, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: AAS Journals
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab930e

The lifetimes of planetary debris discs around white dwarfs

Author(s): Dimitri Veras, Kevin Heng
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 496/2, 2020, Page(s) 2292-2308, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1632

Impact of tides on the transit-timing fits to the TRAPPIST-1 system

Author(s): E. Bolmont, B.-O. Demory, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, E. Agol, S. L. Grimm, P. Auclair-Desrotour, F. Selsis, A. Leleu
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 635, 2020, Page(s) A117, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037546

Atmospheric stability and collapse on tidally locked rocky planets

Author(s): P. Auclair-Desrotour, K. Heng
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 638, 2020, Page(s) A77, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037513

The Peculiar Atmospheric Chemistry of KELT-9b

Author(s): Daniel Kitzmann, Kevin Heng, Paul B. Rimmer, H. Jens Hoeijmakers, Shang-Min Tsai, Matej Malik, Monika Lendl, Russell Deitrick, Brice-Olivier Demory
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 863/2, 2018, Page(s) 183, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: AAS Journals
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aace5a

Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle

Author(s): Kaustubh Hakim; Kevin Heng; Dan Bower; Meng Tian
Published in: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca90c

Jupiter as an Exoplanet: Insights from Cassini Phase Curves

Author(s): Kevin Heng, Liming Li
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 909/2, 2021, Page(s) L20, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abe872