DIRECT MEASURE OF RADIATIVE AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF AN EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERE

Two decades after the discovery of 51 Peg b, the formation processes and atmospheres of short-period gas giants remain poorly understood. Observations of eccentric systems provide key insights on those topics as they can illuminate how a planet's atmosphere responds to changes in incident flux....

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Main Authors: Lewis, Nikole K., Langton, Jonathan, Laughlin, Gregory, Deming, Drake, Batygin, Konstantin, Fortney, Jonathan J., de Wit, Julien
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114269
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2415-2191