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.
- Thermal and Magnetic Evolution of Earth’s Interior
- Cassini States
- Flare frequency distribution of Proxima Centauri
- STEEP: Coupled Stellar-Tidal Evolution of Binary Orbits
- Accumulation of Atmospheric Oxygen due to Water Photolysis and Hydrogen Escape.
- Magma ocean evolution of Trappist-1 g
- The “Cosmic Shoreline”
- Evolution of Tight Stellar Binaries
- Tidal Evolution of Earth-like Exoplanet
- Evolution of a Wide Stellar Binary due to Galactic Effects
- Proxima Centauri b as a “Habitable Evaporated Core.”
- The Habitable Zone
- Evolution of a Planet Orbiting a Short-Period Binary
- Kepler-36 Atmospheric Escape
- Coupling Atmospheric Escape and N-Body Evolution: Application to PSR1257+12
- Solar System Orbital Dynamics from Secular Theory
- Apsidal Locking of the CoRoT-7 System
- Hydrogen Envelope Loss on Tidally Evolving Planets
- Atmospheric Erosion of Mini-Neptunes with the Lehmer & Catling (2017) Model
- Thermal and Magnetic Evolution of Venus
- Accumulation of Atmospheric Oxygen due to Water Photolysis and Hydrogen Escape on the TRAPPIST-1 planets b and e with the LS16 Water loss model
- Atmospheric Erosion of H Envelopes in the Energy-, Radiation/Recombination-, and Bondi-limited Regimes
- Chaotic Eccentricity-Inclination Resonances
- Orbital Evolution of the Circumbinary Planet Kepler-16 b
- Magma Ocean Evolution of Earth
- Water Loss on a Tidally Evolving Planet
- Earth’s Seasonal and Milankovitch Climate Cycles
- Ice Belt Formation on High Obliquity Planets
- Tidal Heating of Io
- Multiple Cassini States in One System
- Radiogenic Heating of Earth
- Stellar Magnetic Braking
- Water Loss on Venus
- Parameter Sweep Example
- Sinusoidal Evolution of Luminosity
- Tidal Locking of the Planet Candidate Gl 581 d
- Proxima Centauri b Atmospheric Escape
- N-body Orbital Evolution of the Solar System
- Magma ocean evolution on GJ 1132 b
- (Pre-)Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
- Luminosity evolution for stars with mass between 0.2 and 0.6 Msun.
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