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Lightning climatology of exoplanets and brown dwarfs guided by Solar system data

Helling, Ch.; Hodosán, G.; Asensio-Torres, R. +2 more

Clouds form on extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs where lightning could occur. Lightning is a tracer of atmospheric convection, cloud formation and ionization processes as known from the Solar system, and may be significant for the formation of prebiotic molecules. We study lightning climatology for the different atmospheric environments of Earth…