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. (Author), Langton, Jonathan (Author), Laughlin, Gregory (Author), Deming, Drake (Author), Batygin, Konstantin (Author), Fortney, Jonathan J. (Author), de Wit, Julien (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2018-03-23T18:31:44Z.
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