A Temperature and Abundance Retrieval Method for Exoplanet Atmospheres

We present a new method to retrieve molecular abundances and temperature profiles from exoplanet atmosphere photometry and spectroscopy. We run millions of one-dimensional (1D) atmosphere models in order to cover the large range of allowed parameter space. In order to run such a large number of mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Madhusudhan, Nikku, Seager, Sara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74059
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948