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Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze: Effect of Creation, Growth, and Settling of Haze Particles. II. Dependence on UV Irradiation Intensity, Metallicity, C/O Ratio, Eddy Diffusion Coefficient, and Temperature
2019 The Astrophysical Journal 877 109.
Caption: Figure 21.
Differences of the band-integrated transit depths from those in the J band as a function of atmospheric metallicity for two different values of the eddy diffusion coefficient, Kzz: (a) 1 × 107 and (b) 1 × 109 cm2 s−1. Transit depths for the hazy atmospheres are plotted with solid lines, while those for the haze-free atmospheres are plotted with dashed lines. The values of the transit depths are normalized by the transit depth difference caused by one atmospheric scale height in the fiducial case (1 × solar and Kzz = 1 × 107 cm2 s−1), ΔDH, fiducial = 2 RrefHref/Rs2, where Rref is the planetocentric distance to a reference pressure level, Href is the pressure scale height at Rref, and Rs is the stellar radius (see the text for details).
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