Mapping clouds and terrain of earth-like planets from photometric variability: Demonstration with planets in face-on orbits

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 739, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kawahara, Hajime ^a   Fujii, Yuka ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

astrobiology; Earth; scattering; techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053500589     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/739/2/L62     Document Type: Article

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