A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7171, 2007, Pages 845-848

  Koskinen, Tommi T ^a   Aylward, Alan D ^a   Miller, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; ION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COOLING; HYDRODYNAMICS; JUPITER; TRITIUM; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; EVAPORATION; HEAT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 36849092874     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06378     Document Type: Article

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