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Cloudy Atmospheres on Directly Imaged Exoplanets: The Need for Accurate Particulate Representation in Photopolarimetric Simulations

  • Authors: Suniti Sanghavi, Robert West, and Jonathan Jiang

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 907 30.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Lightcurves computed using Mie theory for a spherical planet bearing a silicate cloud (solid lines) and an ammonia cloud (dotted lines), for inclination angles of θincl = 90° (top panel), θincl = 60° (middle panel), and θincl = 30° (bottom panel).

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