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<div style="font-size: 40px;"><b>Lorena Acuña</b></div><br>
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<p>I am a postdoctoral researcher at the <a href="http://www.mpia.de/institute/scientific-departments/atmospheric-physics-of-exoplanets">APEx group</a> (Atmospheric Physics of Exoplanets) in the <a href="http://www.mpia.de/en">Max Planck Institute for Astronomy</a>, since December 2022.
My research focuses on the internal structures and atmospheres of exoplanets, where I develop modelling tools to interpret mass, radius and atmospheric data from missions and telescopes such as TESS, CHEOPS, ESPRESSO and JWST.
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<div style="font-size: 22px;"><b>Interior and atmospheric modeling</b></div><br>
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<p><b>Gas giants</b></p>
<p> In collaboration with APEx (MPIA, Heidelberg) and LAM (Marseille), we developed the open-source Python package GASTLI (GAS gianT modeL for Interiors), a coupled interior-atmosphere for planets with H/He envelopes.
The code’s documentation can be found <a href="https://gastli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">here</a>, and the Github repository can be found <a href="https://github.com/lorenaacuna/GASTLI/tree/main">here</a>. </p>
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<figcaption> Left: Schematic diagram showing GASTLI's components and structure. Right: Radius evolution models for hot Neptune HAT-P-26 b for different compositions obtained with GASTLI.</figcaption>
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<p><b>Super-Earths & sub-Neptunes</b></p>
<p> During my PhD, I contributed to the development of MSEI (Marseille's Super-Earth Interior model, see <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa965a">Brugger et al. 2017</a>),
which is a self-consistent interior-atmosphere model applicable to low-mass planets in a wide range of irradiations. MSEI is an interior model for rocky and water-rich compositions, as well as planets with CO<sub>2</sub> atmospheres. <p>
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<figcaption> Mass-radius curves generated with MSEI for a comparison with super-Earth 55 Cancri e, and sub-Neptune HD207897 b</figcaption>
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<p> MSEI can be used to generate mass-radius curves or within a Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to perform retrieval on observational data to obtain the bulk composition and interior conditions of low-mass planets.
All you need is the planetary mass and radius with their respective uncertainties, and the host stellar abundances if available. MSEI has been used to analyse the composition in more than 40 exoplanets,
including the systems TRAPPIST-1, K2-138, and LHS1140. Don't hesitate to contact me via email if you are interested in using MSEI models for your research.
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<div style="font-size: 22px;"><b>Stellar spectroscopy</b></div><br>
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<p> The chemical composition of a star is closely connected to the composition of the planets it hosts.
I conducted a line-by-line, differential chemical analysis of a sample of planet hosts, confirming that the Sun is depleted in refractory elements compared to solar twins without exoplanets.
However, other planet hosts are very diverse in chemical composition, whose stellar abundances can be used to set constraints on their planets iron and silicate contents.
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<figcaption> Mantle composition of a sample of exoplanets discovered by <i>Kepler</i>, based on their host stellar abundances</figcaption>
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<p><b> Check all my contributions in <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9147-7925">ORCID</a> </b>
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<p><b>Applications of GASTLI:</b></p>
<p> GASTLI. An open-source coupled interior-atmosphere model to unveil gas giant composition: <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50559-24/aa50559-24.html">Acuña et al. 2024</a> </p>
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<p><b>Selected applications of MSEI:</b></p>
<p> Characterisation of the hydrospheres of TRAPPIST-1 planets: <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/03/aa39885-20/aa39885-20.html">Acuña et al. 2021</a> </p>
<p> Water content trends in K2-138 and other low-mass multiplanetary systems: <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa42374-21/aa42374-21.html">Acuña et al. 2022</a> </p>
<p> Interior-atmosphere modelling to assess the observability of rocky planets with JWST: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01250">Acuña, L., Deleuil., M. & Mousis, O. 2023</a> </p>
<p> Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS: <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38922-20/aa38922-20.html">Lillo-Box, Figueira, Leleu, Acuña, et al. 2020</a> </p>
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<p><b>Stellar spectroscopy of planet hosts:</b></p>
<p> Detailed chemical compositions of planet hosting stars: I. Exploration of possible planet signatures: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/495/4/3961/5841954?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Liu, Yong, Asplund, Wang, Spina, Acuña et al. 2020</a> </p>
<p> Detailed chemical compositions of planet hosting stars II. Exploration of the interiors of hypothetical exo-Earths: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/513/4/5829/6573874?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Wang, Quanz, Yong, Liu, Seidler, Acuña et al. 2021</a> </p>
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<p><b>Theses:</b></p>
<p> PhD thesis: <a href="https://lorenaacuna.github.io/PhD_Thesis.pdf">Modeling the populations of the low mass planets: transition between super-Earths
and mini-Neptunes</a> </p>
<p> MSc thesis: <a href="https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8976827">Detailed analysis of the chemical composition of stars harboring Earth-like planets</a> </p>
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