Nightside Clouds on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets Mimic Atmosphere-free Scenarios
We investigate the impact of nightside cloud formation on the observable day/night contrast of tidally locked terrestrial planet atmospheres. We demonstrate that, in the case where the planetary dayside is only 10 s of Kelvin hotter than the planetary nightside, the presence of optically thick night...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad78de |