Colors of a second earth: Estimating the fractional areas of ocean, land, and vegetation of earth-like exoplanets

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 715, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 866-880

  Fujii, Yuka ^a   Kawahara, Hajime ^a   Suto, Yasushi ^a,b,c   Taruya, Atsushi ^a,b   Fukuda, Satoru ^a   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^a   Turner, Edwin L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Earth; Scattering; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952790019     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/866     Document Type: Article

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