Near-infrared Characterization of the Atmospheres of Alien Worlds

In this thesis I present near-infrared detections of the thermal emission of a number of hot Jupiters and likely transit depth differences from different wavelength observations of a super-Earth. I have pioneered ``Staring Mode'' using the Wide-field Infrared Camera on the Canada-France-Ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Croll, Bryce
Other Authors: Murray, Norman
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31726