Probing the extreme planetary atmosphere of WASP-12b

Icarus

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 432-445

  Swain, Mark ^a   Deroo, Pieter ^a   Tinetti, Giovanna ^b   Hollis, Morgan ^b   Tessenyi, Marcell ^b   Line, Michael ^c   Kawahara, Hajime ^d   Fujii, Yuka ^e   Showman, Adam P ^f   Yurchenko, Sergey N ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Composition; Eclipses; Extrasolar planets; Jovian planets; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877831639     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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