A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds

With no analogues in the Solar System, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets with masses and radii intermediate between Earth and Neptune was one of the big surprises of exoplanet science. These super-Earths and sub-Neptunes probably represent the most common outcome of planet formation1,2. Mass...

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Main Authors: Benneke, Björn, Knutson, Heather A., Lothringer, Joshua, Crossfield, Ian Jm, Moses, Julianne I., Morley, Caroline, Kreidberg, Laura, Fulton, Benjamin J., Dragomir, Diana, Howard, Andrew W., Wong, Ian, Désert, Jean-Michel, McCullough, Peter R., Kempton, Eliza M.-R., Fortney, Jonathan, Gilliland, Ronald, Deming, Drake, Kammer, Joshua
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128229

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