Venus transit 2004: Illustrating the capability of exoplanet transmission spectroscopy

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 533, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hedelt, P ^a,b   Alonso, R ^c   Brown, T ^d   Collados Vera, M ^e   Rauer, H ^f,g   Schleicher, H ^h   Schmidt, W ^h   Schreier, F ^f   Titz, R ^f  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^d LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Planets and satellites: atmospheres; Planets and satellites: composition; Planets and satellites: detection; Radiative transfer; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LINES; ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; EXOPLANET; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGH ALTITUDE; ISOTOPOLOGUES; NEAR INFRARED; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETS AND SATELLITES: ATMOSPHERES; PLANETS AND SATELLITES: COMPOSITION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TECHNIQUES: SPECTROSCOPIC; TENERIFE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; VACUUM TOWER TELESCOPES; VENUS ATMOSPHERES; VENUS TRANSIT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; PLANETS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 80052913937     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016237     Document Type: Article

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