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1-D prescribed atmosphere model of planetary atmospheres that makes use of the SOCRATES radiative transfer code.
https://proteus-code.readthedocs.io/
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Habitable zone calculation #5

Open Nicholaswogan opened 1 year ago

Nicholaswogan commented 1 year ago

It would be interesting to compute the habitable zone (HZ) with GeneralAdiabat.py + SOCRATES. I recently did this with my model clima and found the HZ to be between 0.97 and 1.60 AU for our solar system. Kopparapu et al. (2013) finds the HZ to be between 0.99 and 1.70 AU.

I'm not bothered by the difference at the inner edge. But I'm puzzled by the difference at the outer edge. Part of the reason is that I'm using slightly different CO2-CO2 CIA opacities compared to Kopparapu et al. (2013). When I adopt their CO2-CO2 CIA opacities, I get an outer edge at 1.63 AU. It is not clear to me what else could explain the gap between 1.63 and 1.70 AU.

It would be useful to me to see what AEOLUS computes for the HZ. If you get an outer edge near ~1.60 AU, then this confirms that both AEOLUS and my code are doing something reasonable.

Nicholaswogan commented 1 year ago

I would do this calculation, but I have never used SOCRATES, so maybe it makes more sense for someone else to tackle it, if they are interested.

timlichtenberg commented 1 year ago

Maybe @arejaygraham and/or @Ryan-Boukrouche would be interested? This item is linked to FormingWorlds/AEOLUS#28 and FormingWorlds/AEOLUS#29 I presume.

timlichtenberg commented 1 year ago

@Nicholaswogan We are figuring out currently issue FormingWorlds/AEOLUS#29 and then come back to this asap.

Nicholaswogan commented 1 year ago

Makes sense to do that first