HOW TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CLOUDY MINI-NEPTUNES AND WATER/VOLATILE-DOMINATED SUPER-EARTHS
One of the most profound questions about the newly discovered class of low-density super-Earths is whether these exoplanets are predominately H2-dominated mini-Neptunes or volatile-rich worlds with gas envelopes dominated by H2O, CO2, CO, CH4, or N2. Transit observations of the super-Earth GJ 1214b...
Main Authors: | Benneke, Bjoern (Contributor), Seager, Sara (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing,
2014-03-27T15:44:05Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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