Timescale for a terrestrial exoplanet in the habitable zone (HZ) to tidally lock according the the eqtide-CPL model from VPLanet.
| Date | 12/15/18 |
| Author | Rory Barnes |
| Modules | EqTide |
| Approx. runtime | 3 minutes |
| Source code | VPLanet, VPLot |
This example calculates the timescale for a 1 Earth-mass, 1 Earth-radius terrestrial exoplanet to tidally lock if it has a tidal Q of 12 and an eccentricity of 0.05. It requires vplanet and it supporting software packages vspace (part of vplanet) and vplot.
vspace vspace.in
python makeplot.py <pdf | png>