Structure, Composition and Evolution of Irradiated Planets

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We are now witnessing the birth of the era of the remote sensing of worlds outside the solar system. The study of close-in extrasolar giant planets (EGPs), in particular those in transit, provides information on their sizes, atmospheres, spectra, thermal properties, and global climates. Extracting information on these physical attributes from recent transit-radius, photometric, and spectral measurements requires theoretical models that incorporate the latest numerical methods, chemistry, and spectroscopy. Interpreting these data, and those anticipated in the near future, is otherwise fraught with ambiguity. I will review the basic theory of irradiated EGPs, focussing on explaining their radii, the effects of inner ice/rock cores, the global redistribution of heat from the day to the night side, basic irradiation physics, atmospheric compositions, spectra, and their light curves as they traverse their orbits. Realistic interpretations of the recent Spitzer IRAC, MIPS, and IRS data will be addressed.

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