References

The mathematical model and numerical scheme of neoVULCAN are documented in the following papers. Equation numbers cited throughout this documentation refer to these publications.

[Tsai2017]

Tsai, S.-M., Lyons, J. R., Grosheintz, L., Rimmer, P. B., Kitzmann, D., & Heng, K., 2017, VULCAN: An Open-source, Validated Chemical Kinetics Python Code for Exoplanetary Atmospheres, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 228, 20. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/228/2/20

[Tsai2018]

Tsai, S.-M., Kitzmann, D., Lyons, J. R., Mendonça, J., Grimm, S. L., & Heng, K., 2018, Toward Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of the Chemical Relaxation Method, The Astrophysical Journal, 862, 31. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aac834

[Tsai2021]

Tsai, S.-M., Malik, M., Kitzmann, D., Lyons, J. R., Fateev, A., Lee, E., & Heng, K., 2021, A Comparative Study of Atmospheric Chemistry with VULCAN, The Astrophysical Journal, 923, 264. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac29bc

[Malik2019]

Malik, M., Kitzmann, D., Mendonça, J. M., et al., 2019, Self-consistent Modeling of the Atmosphere and Climate of Tidally Locked Earth-like Exoplanets, The Astronomical Journal, 157, 170.

[Heng2014]

Heng, K., Mendonça, J. M., & Lee, J.-M., 2014, Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. II. Radiative Transfer via the Two-stream Approximation, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 215, 4.

[Verwer1999]

Verwer, J. G., Spee, E. J., Blom, J. G., & Hundsdorfer, W., 1999, A Second-Order Rosenbrock Method Applied to Photochemical Dispersion Problems, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 20, 1456.

[Sandu1997]

Sandu, A., Verwer, J. G., Van Loon, M., Carmichael, G. R., Potra, F. A., Dabdub, D., & Seinfeld, J. H., 1997, Benchmarking Stiff ODE Solvers for Atmospheric Chemistry Problems I: Implicit vs. Explicit, Atmospheric Environment, 31, 3151.

[Heays2017]

Heays, A. N., Bosman, A. D., & van Dishoeck, E. F., 2017, Photodissociation and photoionisation of atoms and molecules of astrophysical interest, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 602, A105.

[Hu2012]

Hu, R., Seager, S., & Bains, W., 2012, Photochemistry in Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres. I. Photochemistry Model and Benchmark Cases, The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 166.

Citations in the rest of this documentation use the standard Sphinx footnote-style syntax [Tsai2017]_ etc., which Sphinx resolves to the entries above.