Illusion and reality in the atmospheres of exoplanets

The atmospheres of exoplanets reveal all their properties beyond mass, radius, and orbit. Based on bulk densities, we know that exoplanets larger than 1.5 Earth radii must have gaseous envelopes and, hence, atmospheres. We discuss contemporary techniques for characterization of exoplanetary atmosphe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deming, L. Drake, Seager, Sara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118322
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948