Temperature-dependent molecular absorption cross sections for exoplanets and other atmospheres

Icarus

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1673-1677

  Hill, Christian ^a   Yurchenko, Sergei N ^a   Tennyson, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Composition; Extrasolar planets; Infrared observations; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884980881     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.07.028     Document Type: Article

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