Examples

A collection of example input files and scripts using VPLanet that showcase the various applications of the code. The source files for the examples below live in the examples folder in the top-level directory of the VPLanet repository. View them on GitHub.

• Magma ocean evolution of Trappist-1 g
• STEEP: Coupled Stellar-Tidal Evolution of Binary Orbits
• Atmospheric Erosion of Mini-Neptunes with the Lehmer & Catling (2017) Model
• Radiogenic Heating of Earth
• Hydrogen Envelope Loss on Tidally Evolving Planets
• Evolution of a Wide Stellar Binary due to Galactic Effects
• Atmospheric Erosion of H Envelopes in the Energy-, Radiation/Recombination-, and Bondi-limited Regimes
• Solar System Orbital Dynamics from Secular Theory
• Orbital Evolution of the Circumbinary Planet Kepler-16 b
• Multiple Cassini States in One System
• N-body Orbital Evolution of the Solar System
• Tidal Locking of the Planet Candidate Gl 581 d
• Thermal and Magnetic Evolution of Earth’s Interior
• Parameter Sweep Example
• Magma ocean evolution on GJ 1132 b
• Stellar Magnetic Braking
• Ice Belt Formation on High Obliquity Planets
• Chaotic Eccentricity-Inclination Resonances
• Coupling Atmospheric Escape and N-Body Evolution: Application to PSR1257+12
• Evolution of Tight Stellar Binaries
• Proxima Centauri b as a “Habitable Evaporated Core.”
• Apsidal Locking of the CoRoT-7 System
• Accumulation of Atmospheric Oxygen due to Water Photolysis and Hydrogen Escape.
• Cassini States
• Water Loss on a Tidally Evolving Planet
• Tidal Evolution of Earth-like Exoplanet
• Thermal and Magnetic Evolution of Venus
• Water Loss on Venus
• Evolution of a Planet Orbiting a Short-Period Binary
• Tidal Heating of Io
• (Pre-)Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
• Magma Ocean Evolution of Earth
• Earth’s Seasonal and Milankovitch Climate Cycles
• Kepler-36 Atmospheric Escape

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