Gran Telescopio Canarias OSIRIS transiting exoplanet atmospheric survey: Detection of potassium in XO-2b from narrowband spectrophotometry

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 527, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Sing, D K ^a   Desert J M ^b   Fortney, J J ^c   Des Etangs, A Lecavelier ^d   Ballester, G E ^e   Cepa, J ^f   Ehrenreich, D ^g   Lopez Morales M ^h,i   Pont, F ^a   Shabram, M ^c   Vidal Madjar, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^g UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^h GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

planetary systems; stars: individual: XO 2; techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; STARS;

ABSORPTION LEVELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; EXO-PLANETS; EXOPLANET; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; GRAN TELESCOPIO CANARIAS; JUPITERS; LARGE APERTURE TELESCOPES; LIGHTCURVES; NARROW BANDS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PLANETARY SYSTEM; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STAR RADIUS; STARS: INDIVIDUAL: XO-2; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC; TWO WAVELENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

EID: 79251545232     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015579     Document Type: Article

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