Update 10/15

Parameter space paper

Spent most of last week working on this. Fixed the issue where the colormap wasn't clipping at the lowest value (interpolation gives NaNs beyond range). Need to figure out the best new range still, but here's a preview:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/PlanetIonization/Run1_rot_rxt.png

Also made a number of edits, and a few places still to work on. Would like to have it resubmitted by end of next week (proposals are all due this week, I believe?).

HD209458b

Synthetic observations aren't promising here. We're using up to about half the flux reported in the literature, which would probably up the mass loss rate by a factor of ~1.9 (to about 1010, still a little on the low side).

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/HD209458b_transit.png

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/planet-corrected_transit.png

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/HD209458b_attenuation_smaller.png

Radiation Pressure

High Flux

We get the same sort of burping John sees in his medium-wind case.

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/HD209458b_high_flux0083.png

Med Flux (Actual HD209458b Lyman-alpha Flux)

Very subtle widening of the arms, due to some material being pushed radially outward.

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/HD209458b_med_flux0106.png

Low Flux

Even more subtle widening, very similar to medium flux.

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/HD209458b/HD209458b_low_flux0103.png

Medium and low flux appear to be pretty much steady-state. Probably don't need to get more frames - doesn't look like there'll be much change to average out. All three still queued on Stampede, but we're pretty low on time now. Satisfactory to make synthetic observations?

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