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DrJamesOwen

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer in Exoplanet Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5785james.owen CV

 
 
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Location

 

Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Owen:2019:10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246,
author = {Owen, JE},
doi = {10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246},
journal = {Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences},
pages = {67--90},
title = {Atmospheric escape and the evolution of close-in exoplanets},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246},
volume = {47},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Exoplanets with substantial hydrogen/helium atmospheres have been discovered in abundance, many residing extremely close to their parent stars.The extreme irradiation levels that these atmospheres experience cause themto undergo hydrodynamic atmospheric escape. Ongoing atmospheric escape has been observed to be occurring in a few nearby exoplanet systems through transit spectroscopy both for hot Jupiters and for lower-masssuper-Earths and mini-Neptunes. Detailed hydrodynamic calculations thatincorporate radiative transfer and ionization chemistry are now common inone-dimensional models, and multidimensional calculations that incorporate magnetic fields and interactions with the interstellar environment arecutting edge. However, comparison between simulations and observationsremains very limited.While hot Jupiters experience atmospheric escape, themass-loss rates are not high enough to affect their evolution. However, forlower-mass planets, atmospheric escape drives and controls their evolution,sculpting the exoplanet population that we observe today.
AU  - Owen,JE
DO  - 10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246
EP  - 90
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0084-6597
SP  - 67
TI  - Atmospheric escape and the evolution of close-in exoplanets
T2  - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000470274200004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060246
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/108456
VL  - 47
ER  -
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