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  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Adam P. Showman was affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research focused primarily on fields related to physics and astronomy, with a specialization in astronomy and astrophysics. Their work addressed various subfields including atmospheric science, instrumentation, molecular biology, and computational mechanics.

The scientist contributed extensively to topics such as astro and planetary science, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysics and star formation studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, atmospheric ozone and climate, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, and solar and space plasma dynamics.

Showman published numerous papers in well-known academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets included:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Space Science Reviews
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Notable recent papers authored by Adam P. Showman include:

  • The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs, 2020, Space Science Reviews
  • Comparison of the Deep Atmospheric Dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in Light of the Juno and Cassini Gravity Measurements, 2020, Space Science Reviews
  • Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • 3D simulations of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter HD 189733b, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Throughout their career, Adam P. Showman collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jonathan J. Fortney
  • Vivien Parmentier
  • Xianyu Tan
  • Jean-Michel Désert
  • Jacob L. Bean

Among recognitions awarded to them, Showman was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019.

Best Publications

  • A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion

    David K. Sing;Jonathan J. Fortney;Nikolay Nikolov;Hannah R. Wakeford

  • A map of the day–night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b

    Heather A. Knutson;David Charbonneau;Lori E. Allen;Jonathan J. Fortney;Jonathan J. Fortney

  • Atmospheric Circulation and Tides of "51Peg b-like" Planets

    Adam P. Showman;Tristan Guillot

  • Atmospheric circulation and tides of ``51 Pegasus b-like'' planets

    Adam P. Showman;Tristan Guillot

  • Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy of the Exoplanets HD209458b and XO-1b Using the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

    Drake Deming;Ashlee Wilkins;Peter McCullough;Adam Burrows

  • INFRARED TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE EXOPLANETS HD 209458b AND XO-1b USING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA-3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

    Drake Deming;Drake Deming;Ashlee Wilkins;Peter R. McCullough;Adam Burrows

  • Disequilibrium Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen Chemistry in the Atmospheres of HD 189733b and HD 209458b

    Julianne I. Moses;Channon Visscher;Jonathan J. Fortney;Adam P. Showman

  • Atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters: Coupled radiative-dynamical general circulation model simulations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b

    Adam P. Showman;Jonathan J. Fortney;Yuan Lian;Mark S. Marley

  • DISEQUILIBRIUM CARBON, OXYGEN, AND NITROGEN CHEMISTRY IN THE ATMOSPHERES OF HD 189733b AND HD 209458b

    Julianne I. Moses;C. Visscher;J. J. Fortney;A. P. Showman

  • Jovian atmospheric dynamics: An update after Galileo and Cassini

    Ashwin R Vasavada;Adam P Showman

  • 3.6 and 4.5 Micron Phase Curves and Evidence for Non-Equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b

    Heather A. Knutson;Nikole Lewis;Jonathan J. Fortney;Adam Burrows

  • Evolution of "51Peg b-like" Planets

    Tristan Guillot;Adam P. Showman

  • Equatorial superrotation on tidally locked exoplanets

    Adam P. Showman;Adam P. Showman;Lorenzo M. Polvani;Lorenzo M. Polvani

  • Evolution of "51 Pegasus b-like" planets

    Tristan Guillot;Adam P. Showman

  • A PRECISE WATER ABUNDANCE MEASUREMENT FOR THE HOT JUPITER WASP-43b

    Laura Kreidberg;Jacob L. Bean;Jean Michel Désert;Michael R. Line

  • 3D mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres I: application to the day/night cold trap in HD 209458b

    Vivien Parmentier;Adam P. Showman;Yuan Lian

  • 3.6 and 4.5 μm Phase Curves and Evidence for Non-equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b

    Heather A. Knutson;Nikole Lewis;Jonathan J. Fortney;Adam S. Burrows

  • Multi-Wavelength Constraints on the Day-Night Circulation Patterns of HD 189733b

    Heather A. Knutson;David Charbonneau;Nicolas B. Cowan;Jonathan J. Fortney

  • Thermal structure of an exoplanet atmosphere from phase-resolved emission spectroscopy

    Kevin B. Stevenson;Jean Michel Désert;Michael R. Line;Jacob L. Bean

  • Dynamic Meteorology at the Photosphere of HD 209458b

    Curtis S. Cooper;Adam P. Showman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan J. Fortney
Jonathan J. Fortney University of California, Santa Cruz
Jean-Michel Desert
Jean-Michel Desert University of Amsterdam
Eric Agol
Eric Agol University of Washington
Drake Deming
Drake Deming University of Maryland, College Park
Adam Burrows
Adam Burrows Princeton University
Mark S. Marley
Mark S. Marley University of Arizona
David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau Harvard University
Gregory W. Henry
Gregory W. Henry Tennessee State University
Tristan Guillot
Tristan Guillot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel Apai
Daniel Apai University of Arizona

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