FRECKLL: Full and Reduced Exoplanet Chemical Kinetics distiLLed [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11203


We introduce a new chemical kinetic code FRECKLL (Full and Reduced Exoplanet Chemical Kinetics distiLLed) to evolve large chemical networks efficiently. FRECKLL employs `distillation’ in computing the reaction rates, which minimizes the error bounds to the minimum allowed by double precision values ($\epsilon \leq 10^{-15}$). FRECKLL requires less than 5 minutes to evolve the full Venot2020 network in a 130 layers atmosphere and 30 seconds to evolve the Venot2020 reduced scheme. Packaged with FRECKLL is a TauREx 3.1 plugin for usage in forward modelling and retrievals. We present TauREx retrievals performed on a simulated HD189733 JWST spectra using the full and reduced Venot2020 chemical networks and demonstrate the viability of total disequilibrium chemistry retrievals and the ability for JWST to detect disequilibrium processes.

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A. Al-Refaie, O. Venot, Q. Changeat, et. al.
Fri, 23 Sep 22
30/70

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures