Atmospheric retrieval for super-earths: Uniquely constraining the atmospheric composition with transmission spectroscopy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 753, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Benneke, Bjoern ^a   Seager, Sara ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

methods: numerical; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: individual (GJ 1214b)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862878927     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/100     Document Type: Article

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