Ph. D. Dissertation
Ph. D. Dissertation
Cooper, Curtis S. 2006, "Meteorologies of
Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Giant Planets", Accepted April 19, 2006 by
The University of Arizona, Graduate College (Major: Planetary Science,
Minor: Astronomy).
Refereed Journals
Knutson, H. A., Charbonneau, D., Allen, L. E., Fortney, J. J., Agol, E., Cowan,
N. B., Showman, A. P., Cooper, C. S., & Megeath, T., "A map of the day-night
contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b," Nature, 447, 183–186
Fortney, J. J., Cooper, C. S., Showman, A. P., Marley, M. S., & Freedman, R. S.
2006, "The influence of atmospheric dynamics on the infrared spectra and light
curves of hot Jupiters," Astrophysical Journal, 652, 746–757
Cooper, C. S., & Showman, A. P. 2006, "Dynamics and Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry
in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres, With Application To HD 209458b,"
Astrophysical Journal, 649, 1048–1063.
Williams, P. K., Charbonneau, D., Cooper, C. S., Showman, A. P., & Fortney, J.
J. 2006, "Resolving the Surfaces of Extrasolar Planets With Secondary Exclipse
Light Curves," Astrophysical Journal, 649, 1020–1027.
Cooper, C. S., & Showman, A. P. 2005, "Dynamic Meteorology at the Photosphere of HD
209458b," Astrophysical Journal 629, L45–L48.
Fortney, J. J., Sudarsky, D., Hubeny, I., Cooper, C. S., Hubbard, W. B.,
Burrows, A., & Lunine, J. I. 2003, "On the Indirect Detection of Sodium in the
Atmosphere of the Planetary Companion to HD 209458", Astrophysical
Journal, 589, 615–622.
Cooper, C. S., Sudarsky, D., Milsom, J. A., Lunine, J. I., Burrows, A. 2003, "Modeling the Formation of Clouds in Brown Dwarf
Atmospheres," Astrophysical Journal, 586 n2, 1320–1337.
Fenimore, E. E., Cooper, C., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Sumner, M. C. (Los Alamos);
Yoshida, A., Namiki, M. (RIKEN) 1999, "Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic
Shells: The Surface Filling Factor," Astrophysical Journal, 512,
683–692.
Prettyman, T. H., Cooper, C. S., Luke, P. N., Russo, P. A., Amman, M., and
Mercer, D. J., 1998, "Physics-based generation of gamma-ray response functions
for CdZnTe detectors," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry,
233, 257–264.
Conference Proceedings
Showman, A. P., and Cooper, C. S. (2005), "Atmospheric Dynamics of Pegasi Planets,"
Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies,
Proceedings of Haute Provence Observatory Colloquium (22-25 August 2005), Ed.
by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy, & C. Moutou.