Comet-like tail-formation of exospheres of hot rocky exoplanets: Possible implications for CoRoT-7b

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Mura, A ^a   Wurz, P ^b   Schneider, J ^c   Lammer, H ^d   Griessmeier J M ^e   Khodachenko, M L ^d   Weingrill, J ^d   Guenther, E ^f   Cabrera, J ^g   Erikson, A ^g   Fridlund, M ^h   Milillo, A ^a   Rauer, H ^g,i   von Paris, Ph ^g  

^a INAF   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^e ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^f THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Composition; Extrasolar planets; Planetary formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650947479     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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