Theortetical Models of Extrasolar Giant Planets
Abstract
The recent discoveries of giant planets around nearby stars have galvanized the planetary science community, astronomers, and the public at large. Since {\it direct} detection is now feasible, and is suggested by the recent acquisition of Gl229 B, it is crucial for the future of extrasolar planet searches that the fluxes, evolution, and physical structure of objects from Saturn's mass to 15 Juipter masses be theoretically investigated. We discuss our first attempts to explore the characteristics of extrasolar giant planets (EGPs), in aid of both NASA's and ESA's recent plans to search for such planets around nearby stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9608178,
title = {Theortetical Models of Extrasolar Giant Planets},
author = {A. Burrows and W. B. Hubbard and J. I. Lunine and T. Guillot and D. Saumon and M. Marley and R. S. Freedman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9608178},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX, using espcrc2.sty style files from Elsevier, 10 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe," ed. by D. Sanders et al. (Nuclear Physics B Supplement), 1996