VPLanet

The Virtual Planet Simulator

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Hello! I am the official twitter handle for the VPLanet code that simulates planetary evolution, focusing on #exoplanet habitability. I can be downloaded at https://t.co/20Z0USaWHE. Follow me to keep up to date on code features and exciting results! #astrobiology

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

You beat us to it, @ProfAbelMendez! Thanks for advertising the workshop!

[Prof. Abel Méndez 🔭 🔬 @ProfAbelMendez]

The Third VPLanet Workshop will take place 29-30 Aug 2023. The workshop will be virtual and is open to everyone. https://t.co/ob3QmM75Tj https://t.co/tULVq9q9Xe @vplanetcode

[Antígona Segura 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @antigonasegura]

OPEN POSITION in #astrobiology #PlanetarySciences
at @icnunam in Mexico City
Deadline: November 24, 2022
RT

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Congratulations to the SPECULOOS team on this amazing discovery! At next week's VPLanet Workshop (Sept 13-14), we will model this system. You can register at https://t.co/zGpEdAo9mq. Registration closes this Friday, Sept. 9th.

[ULiège Research & Innovation @ULiegeRecherche]

International team led by @LaetitiaDelrez from #ULiège announces the discovery of two 'super-Earth' type planets orbiting LP 890-9. #SPECULOOS2 is a small cool star located about 100 light-years from our Earth. @Michael59607421 @ESO @AandA_journal
https://t.co/JvGNkDA8ra

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Registration for the Second VPLanet Workshop closes in 4 weeks on Sept. 9th. Sign up here: https://t.co/zGpEdAFcoq. On Day 1 we review how to use the code; Day 2 we break into groups and apply it to a new system. All are welcome!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Registration is now open for the 2nd VPLanet Workshop! 13-14 Sep 2022. Virtual, free, and open to all. Day 1 will be an overview; Day 2 we will break into groups and simulate a soon-to-be-announced planetary system. We'll all write a paper on the results. https://t.co/TXYku552fO

[Michael Wong @miquai]

Megan Gialluca: Using @VPLanetCode, we find that the habitable zone TRAPPIST-1 planets e, f, and g can lose a maximum of 14, 6, and 4 terrestrial oceans worth of water via atmospheric escape during their early evolution. #AbSciCon22

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Congratulations to Michelle Belkovski, @jcbastro, and co-authors on this exciting new result! Thanks for using @VPLanetCode!

[Juliette Becker @jxcbecker]

New on the arXiv: https://t.co/Zi08WnusVJ, a paper led by Michelle Belkovski, a University of Michigan senior who started this project 2 years ago as a @UROPumich student, which has now resulted in her first first-author paper!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

New paper from Laura Amaral (not on twitter) shows that flares from low mass stars can remove up to twice as much water as is present on Earth today! https://t.co/RJOMoHx2Si Also, big thanks to @antigonasegura and @rodluger for their contributions. @VPL_Astrobio #exoplanet

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

You can now watch VPLanet lead developer Rory Barnes' talk on how VPLanet fits into the larger theme of "computational habitability" at last year's IAU symposium on computational astrophysics. https://t.co/FCOYjALsJn

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

VPLanet predicts a complicated boundary between ice free and fully ice-covered planets as a function of obliquity and incident radiation. This figure, from https://t.co/trBOkTLwMu, shows where ice develops on Earth twins orbiting solar twins after 1 million years.

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

We've just released v2.2, which fixes a day-zero bug in atmospheric escape. The enhancement in mass loss due to stellar gravity was not previously being applied. More details in the release notes. Apologies for any inconvenience!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Congratulations to @CaitlynWilhelm on her first first-author paper! Through >270,000 VPLanet simulations, she showed most planets will either be ice free or totally ice-covered. She also found that equatorial ice belts should be more common than ice caps. https://t.co/2vepE8sxed

[Dr. Patrick Barth 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @ExoplanetMaster]

Our paper is now finally published in print in the newest issue of @Astrobiology_jn :)

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

If you attended last week's workshop, please take a few minutes to provide some anonymous feedback on it. https://t.co/ByA9msWIyr

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Big thanks to everyone who attended the VPLanet Developers Workshop this week! And also to all the people who have helped create the software: @rodluger @PdriscollE @ExoplanetMaster @Exotides @astrofleming1 @AbVsm @CaitlynWilhelm, all of @VPL_Astrobio, and others not on twitter!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Version 2.0 is released! With this update comes much more functionality, documentation, and stability. You can now also install VPLanet and its support scripts with a single command: pip install vplanet. Big thanks to @rodluger and @CaitlynWilhelm for their efforts!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Reminder: The last day to register for the VPLanet Developers Workshop is Monday, May 31st! https://t.co/qgmFrY77IT.

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Fantastic presentation on magma ocean modeling with VPLanet from Patrick Barth (@ExoplanetMaster) at today's Quantitative Habitability videocon!

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Congratulations to @jess_birky on her new paper on the properties of the TRAPPIST-1 star inferred from recent observations. She used @astrofleming1's machine learning code and VPLanet's STELLAR module to derive its age, mass, and XUV luminosity over time.

[Research Notes @AAS_ResNotes]

New Research Note: Improved Constraints for the XUV Luminosity Evolution of Trappist-1 https://t.co/50sxNeTd1d

[VPLanet @VPLanetCode]

Congratulations to @ExoplanetMaster and co-authors on this paper! We've released version 1.2, which was used to produce the results in this paper.

[Dr. Patrick Barth 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @ExoplanetMaster]

Our model MagmOc is available as module of @VPLanetCode https://t.co/6WUg7hR8Wv using the modules for atmospheric escape (AtmEsc), tidal (EqTide) & radiogenic heating (RadHeat), & stellar evolution (STELLAR).
To reproduce results in our paper go to https://t.co/X3xHypIcd6 (5/13)