Hot Jupiters are giant planets orbiting in tidally locked orbits very close to their stars.

Drag-less grid of models

We here present a grid of 345 non-grey 3D hydrodynamic models of hot Jupiters atmospheric models calculated with the SPARC/MITgcm code. All details are described in Roth et al. 2024 (link to arxiv) and all models can be downloaded here: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10785320

We provide:

  • The time-averaged 3D  pressure, temperature and wind structure for each model. 
  • The emission spectrum of the planet at multiple phases along its orbit, together with the spectral phase curve calculated on 196 different wavelengths bins.
  • A python code that visualises both physical and spectral outputs of the grid in a convenient way.

Full grid Hot jupiters

 Caption: the longitude/latitude temperature map of the 345 models of the main grid of models described in ??. 

Draged grid of models

An additional  171 models, not described yet in a publication, have been uploaded  at the same link with the addition of a Rayleigh drag representing all sorts of possible dissipation, incuding sub-grid dissipation, hydrodynamical instabilities, shocks and/or magnetic drag. The timescale for the Rayleigh drag are 103, 104 and 105 seconds. Full grid Hot jupiters drag

  Caption: the longitude/latitude temperature map of the models with different drag timescales. Gravity is fixed between the models. The infinite drag correspond to the dragless models above.

 Python visualizer

The Zenodo link comes with a Python visualiser. Look at the "Slider_README.txt"  file to understand the slider function. Once run you will obtain the kind of output below, with the small arrows allowing you to choose which model to preview.Slider plot