Warm Jupiters

These models are of a hypothetical warm Jupiter, with the mass and radius of Jupiter, on a circular 10-day orbit around a solar twin.

A map of the thermal flux emitted from the planet, throughout one orbit.

This planet rotates half as fast as Jupiter and has an obliquity of 60 degrees.

A map of thermal emission from the dayside of the planet, as observed from the star, throughout one orbit.

This planet rotates half as fast as Jupiter and has an obliquity of 60 degrees.

A map of the thermal flux emitted from the planet, throughout one orbit.

This planet rotates synchronously with its orbit and has an obliquity of 30 degrees.

A map of thermal emission from the dayside of the planet, as observed from the star, throughout one orbit.

This planet rotates synchronously with its orbit and has an obliquity of 30 degrees.

These gifs are the cylindrical and orthographic maps throughout one planet orbit (as shown in the examples above), for warm Jupiter models with all combinations of:

  • Obliquities: 0, 10, 30, 60, and 90 degrees

  • Rotation rates:

    • Equal to Jupiter

    • Half that of Jupiter (Jupiter / 2)

    • Jupiter / 4

    • Jupiter / 12

    • Synchronous with the 10 day orbit (roughly = Jupiter / 24)

The black star marks the location of the substellar point, except for the models rotating as quickly as Jupiter. For these models a diurnally averaged instellation pattern is used and the central latitude of instellation is marked with a black line.