Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Imperial College London, London, UK
- Provides the description of upper atmospheric modeling on extrasolar giant planets (EGPs)
- Shows the calculation of escape rates from EGP atmospheres around stars of different activity levels
- Presents the first exoplanetary upper atmosphere model to include a rigorous description of secondary ionization by photoelectrons and their secondaries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joshua is currently a research fellow in the Space Environment Group at the University of Southampton, where the focus of his work has moved closer to home: Earth’s polar atmosphere. He uses a suite of instruments located on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to observe emissions from the aurora borealis in order to glean more incites into our planet’s upper atmosphere.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modelling the Upper Atmosphere of Gas-Giant Exoplanets Irradiated by Low-Mass Stars
Authors: Joshua Chadney
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63351-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63350-3Published: 03 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87530-9Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63351-0Published: 24 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Planetary Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrophysics and Astroparticles