taylorbell57 / Bell_EBM

An object-oriented Energy Balance Model that can be used to model exoplanet observations
https://bell-ebm.readthedocs.io
MIT License
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Add albedo map #12

Open taylorbell57 opened 4 years ago

taylorbell57 commented 4 years ago

This, combined with simultaneous wavelength phasecurves (Issue #6), can allow you to simultaneously find the albedo and temperature map of a planet when fitting the model to a real lightcurve (or multiple phasecurves e.g. TESS and Spitzer). The albedo map would affect the heat deposited in each region. It wouldn't be self-consistent (e.g. temperature wont affect albedo), just a fairly low order spherical harmonic map or something like that.

Good for a v2 release