Thermal phase variations of WASP-12b: Defying predictions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cowan, Nicolas B ^a   MacHalek, Pavel ^b,c   Croll, Bryce ^d,e   Shekhtman, Louis M ^a   Burrows, Adam ^f   Deming, Drake ^g,h   Greene, Tom ^c   Hora, Joseph L ⁱ  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h Bldg 142   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

infrared: planetary systems; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: composition; planets and satellites: individual (WASP 12b); planetstar interactions; techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857243380     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/82     Document Type: Article

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