Next-Generation Atmosphere Models for Giant Planets with Application to Coupled Interior Composition and Spectral Evolution I: Cloudless Models with Equilibrium Chemistry

arXiv:2606.14026 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-06-12 · Read on arXiv

Yi-Xian Chen, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Adam Burrows, Ankan Sur

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-06-12

Comments: resubmitted to ApJ after minor revision; dataset and interpolator available at 10.5281/zenodo.18832236

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 30× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adiabatic Evolution — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Absorption Cross Section — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Convective Mixing in Gas Giant Planets with Primordial Composition Gradients
• Self-consistent Models of Y Dwarf Atmospheres with Water Clouds and Disequilibrium Chemistry

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