Rapid heating of the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7229, 2009, Pages 562-564

  Laughlin, Gregory ^a   Deming, Drake ^b   Langton, Jonathan ^a   Kasen, Daniel ^a   Vogt, Steve ^a   Butler, Paul ^c   Rivera, Eugenio ^a   Meschiari, Stefano ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GLOBAL WARMING; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRRADIATION; JUPITER; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOMETER; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BRIGHTNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLOW KINETICS; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFRARED RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LUMINANCE; OBSERVATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIDAL POWER;

PERIASTRON;

EID: 59049088402     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07649     Document Type: Article

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