Atmospheric Retrieval for Super-Earths: Uniquely Constraining the Atmospheric Composition with Transmission Spectroscopy

We present a retrieval method based on Bayesian analysis to infer the atmospheric compositions and surface or cloud-top pressures from transmission spectra of exoplanets with general compositions. In this study, we identify what can unambiguously be determined about the atmospheres of exoplanets fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benneke, Bjoern, Seager, Sara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74189
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948