Extremely Irradiated Hot Jupiters: Non-oxide Inversions, H− Opacity, and Thermal Dissociation of Molecules

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures >2000 K, stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret observations. While these objects are planets in every other sense, their atmospheres reach temperatures at low pressures comp...

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