Rosseland & Planck gaseous mean opacities

DOI

We present new calculations of Rosseland and Planck gaseous mean opacities relevant to the atmospheres of giant planets and ultracool dwarfs. Such calculations are used in modeling the atmospheres, interiors, formation, and evolution of these objects. Our calculations are an expansion of those presented in Freedman (2008ApJS..174..504F) to include lower pressures, finer temperature resolution, and also the higher metallicities most relevant for giant planet atmospheres. Calculations span 1{mu}bar to 300bar, and 75-4000K, in a nearly square grid. Opacities at metallicities from solar to 50 times solar abundances are calculated. We also provide an analytic fit to the Rosseland mean opacities over the grid in pressure, temperature, and metallicity. In addition to computing mean opacities at these local temperatures, we also calculate them with weighting functions up to 7000K, to simulate the mean opacities for incident stellar intensities, rather than locally thermally emitted intensities. The chemical equilibrium calculations account for the settling of condensates in a gravitational field and are applicable to cloud-free giant planet and ultracool dwarf atmospheres, but not circumstellar disks. We provide our extensive opacity tables for public use.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22140025
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/214/25
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/214/25
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Provenance
Creator Freedman R.S.; Lustig-Yaeger J.; Fortney J.J.; Lupu R.E.; Marley M.S.,Lodders K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2014
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy