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<h2 class="major">Clouds in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres</h2>
<p><span class="image right"><a href="images/science/map_extended_thick_2300nm_26mbar.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images/science/map_extended_thick_2300nm_26mbar.jpg" alt="Hot Jupiter maps"></a><b>Figure 1.</b> <i>2D
maps of the temperature and wind (top) and cloud (bottom) distributions in a simulated hot Jupiter's atmosphere
(<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdc22" target="_blank">Harada et al. 2021)</a>.</i></span>
Despite their intrinsically low abundance, Hot Jupiters are easily the most well-characterized class of exoplanets
thanks to their large sizes, high masses, and hot temperatures (and therefore high signal-to-noise). However,
much of the relevant physics underlying these planets remains mysterious, as there are no Solar System analogs
and laboratory experiments in this regime are difficult. This makes interpreting observations of hot Jupiters
challenging. Mineral clouds are a key example of atmospheric phenomena on hot Jupiters that likely influence
observable quantities (such as thermal emission spectra), yet are poorly understood in terms of their physical
properties, spatial extent, and sedimentation efficiency (to list a few things). Several different approaches
to modeling clouds in hot Jupiter atmospheres have been developed that span a wide range of physical assumptions.
By comparing observations to simulated expectations under different cloud model assumptions, we can better
understand the nature of these exotic exoplanets.
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<h3>Modeling High-resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models</h3>
<p><span class="image left"><a href="images/science/spectra_compare.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images/science/spectra_compare.jpg" alt="Hot Jupiter synthetic spectra"></a><b>Figure 2.</b> <i>Simulated
high-resolution emission spectra from a cloudy hot Jupiter GCM
(<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdc22" target="_blank">Harada et al. 2021)</a>.</i></span>
Observations of scattered light and thermal emission from hot Jupiter exoplanets have suggested the presence of
inhomogeneous aerosols (i.e., clouds and hazes) in their atmospheres. 3D general circulation models (GCMs)
that attempt to model the effects of aerosols have been developed to understand the physical processes that
underlie their dynamical structures (e.g., Figure 1).
In <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdc22" target="_blank">Harada et al. (2021)</a>,
we investigated how different approaches to aerosol modeling in GCMs of hot Jupiters affect high-resolution
thermal emission spectra at different phases of the planet's orbit. Using results from a GCM with temperature-dependent
cloud formation, we calculated spectra of a representative hot Jupiter with different assumptions regarding the
vertical extent and thickness of clouds. We then compared these spectra to models in which clouds are absent or
simply post-processed (i.e., added subsequently to the completed clear model; Figure 2).
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<p><span class="image right"><a href="images/science/doppler_shifts.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images/science/doppler_shifts.jpg" alt="Doppler shift vs phase"></a><b>Figure 3.</b> <i>Effective
net Doppler shift of the simulated planet's emission spectra as a function of orbital phase.
(<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdc22" target="_blank">Harada et al. 2021)</a>.</i></span>
We showed that the temperature-dependent treatment of clouds in the GCM produces high-resolution emission spectra that are markedly
different from the clear and post-processed cases, both in the continuum flux levels and line profiles, and that
increasing the vertical extent and thickness of clouds leads to bigger changes in these features.
We also evaluated the net Doppler shifts of the spectra induced by global winds and the planet's rotation and showed that they
are strongly phase dependent, especially for models with thicker and more extended clouds (Figure 3). This work demonstrates
the importance of radiative feedback in cloudy atmospheric models of hot Jupiters, as this can have a significant
impact on interpreting spectroscopic observations of exoplanet atmospheres.
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