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Chenliang Huang

Chenliang Huang contributes to research discovery and scholarly infrastructure.

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astro-ph.EPArtificial Intelligenceastro-ph.IMastro-ph.SRHuman-Computer Interaction

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preprint2026arXiv

The Garden of Forking Paths: Narrative Arc-Conditioned Gameplay Planning

Narrative archetypes (e.g., Hero's Journey, Three-act structure) provide universal story structures that resonate across cultures and media and are important for video game storytelling, yet existing LLM-based methods lack explicit use of these archetypes in procedurally generated games. We propose Forking Garden, a framework for narrative arc-conditioned gameplay planning that generates branching games from user-provided storylines. Our approach first generates a diverse pool of independent nodes, then assembles them into a dungeon graph via arc-guided constraint algorithms, where each node achieves multimodal alignment of gameplay elements. We develop an end-to-end interactive system that instantiates the framework.

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preprint2022arXiv

MAGRATHEA: an open-source spherical symmetric planet interior structure code

MAGRATHEA is an open-source planet structure code that considers the case of fully differentiated spherically symmetric interiors. Given the mass of each layer and the surface temperature, the code iterates the boundary conditions of the hydrostatic equations using the method of shooting to a fitting point in order to find the planet radius. The first version of MAGRATHEA supports a maximum of four layers of iron, silicates, water, and ideal gas. With a few exceptions, the temperature profile can be chosen between isothermal, isentropic, and user-defined functions. The user has many options for the phase diagram and equation of state in each layer and we document how to add additional equations of state. We present MAGRATHEA's capabilities and discuss its applications. We encourage the community to participate in the development of MAGRATHEA at https://github.com/Huang-CL/Magrathea.

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preprint2022arXiv

Mass loss by atmospheric escape from extremely close-in planets

We explore atmospheric escape from close-in exoplanets with the highest mass loss rates. First, we locate the transition from stellar X-ray and UV-driven escape to rapid Roche lobe overflow, which occurs once the 10-100 nbar pressure level in the atmosphere reaches the Roche lobe. Planets enter this regime when the ratio of the substellar radius to the polar radius along the visible surface pressure level, that aligns with a surface of constant Roche potential, is X/Z~$\gtrsim$~1.2 for Jovian planets (Mp~$\gtrsim$~100 M$_{\Earth}$) and X/Z~$\gtrsim$~1.02 for sub-Jovian planets ($M_p \approx$~10--100 M$_{\Earth}$). Around a sun-like star, this regime applies to orbital periods of less than two days for planets with radii of about 3--14 R$_{\Earth}$. Our results agree with the properties of known transiting planets and can explain parts of the sub-Jovian desert in the population of known exoplanets. Second, we present detailed numerical simulations of atmospheric escape from a planet like Uranus or Neptune orbiting close to a sun-like star that support the results above and point to interesting qualitative differences between hot Jupiters and sub-Jovian planets. We find that hot Neptunes with solar metallicity hydrogen and helium envelopes have relatively more extended upper atmospheres than typical hot Jupiters, with a lower ionization fraction and higher abundances of escaping molecules. This is consistent with existing ultraviolet transit observations of warm Neptunes and it might provide a way to use future observations and models to distinguish solar metallicity atmospheres from higher metallicity atmospheres.

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preprint2021arXiv

Atmosphere escape inferred from modelling the H$α$ transmission spectrum of WASP-121b

The escaping atmospheres of hydrogen driven by stellar X-ray and extreme Ultraviolet (XUV) have been detected around some exoplanets by the excess absorption of Ly$α$ in far ultraviolet band. In the optical band the excess absorption of H$α$ is also found by the ground-based instruments. However, it is not certain so far if the escape of the atmosphere driven by XUV can result in such absorption. Here we present the XUV driven hydrodynamic simulation coupled with the calculation of detailed level population and the process of radiative transfer for WASP-121b. Our fiducial model predicts a mass loss rate of $\sim$1.28$\times$10$^{12}$g/s for WASP-121b. Due to the high temperature and Ly$α$ intensity predicted by the fiducial model, many hydrogen atoms are populated into the first excited state. As a consequence, the transmission spectrum of H$α$ simulated by our model is broadly consistent with the observation. Comparing with the absorption of H$α$ at different observation times, the stellar XUV emission varies in the range of 0.5-1.5 times fiducial value, which may reflect the variation of the stellar activity. Finally, we find that the supersonic regions of the planetary wind contribute a prominent portion to the absorption of H$α$ by comparing the equivalent width of H$α$, which hints that a transonic outflow of the upper atmosphere driven by XUV irradiation of the host star can be detected by the ground-based telescope and the H$α$ can be a good indicator of escaping atmosphere.

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preprint2019arXiv

Sodium and Potassium Signatures of Volcanic Satellites Orbiting Close-in Gas Giant Exoplanets

Extrasolar satellites are generally too small to be detected by nominal searches. By analogy to the most active body in the Solar System, Io, we describe how sodium (Na I) and potassium (K I) $\textit{gas}$ could be a signature of the geological activity venting from an otherwise hidden exo-Io. Analyzing $\sim$ a dozen close-in gas giants hosting robust alkaline detections, we show that an Io-sized satellite can be stable against orbital decay below a planetary tidal $\mathcal{Q}_p \lesssim 10^{11}$. This tidal energy is focused into the satellite driving a $\sim 10^{5 \pm 2}$ higher mass loss rate than Io's supply to Jupiter's Na exosphere, based on simple atmospheric loss estimates. The remarkable consequence is that several exo-Io column densities are on average $\textit{more than sufficient}$ to provide the $\sim$ 10$^{10 \pm 1}$ Na cm$^{-2}$ required by the equivalent width of exoplanet transmission spectra. Furthermore, the benchmark observations of both Jupiter's extended ($\sim 1000$ R$_J$) Na exosphere and Jupiter's atmosphere in transmission spectroscopy yield similar Na column densities that are purely exogenic in nature. As a proof of concept, we fit the "high-altitude" Na at WASP 49-b with an ionization-limited cloud similar to the observed Na profile about Io. Moving forward, we strongly encourage time-dependent ingress and egress monitoring along with spectroscopic searches for other volcanic volatiles.

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