Compositional diversity in the atmospheres of hot neptunes, with application to GJ 436b

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 777, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Moses, J I ^a   Line, M R ^b   Visscher, C ^c   Richardson, M R ^d   Nettelmann, N ^e   Fortney, J J ^e   Barman, T S ^f   Stevenson, K B ^g   Madhusudhan, N ^h  

^a Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

planetary systems; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: composition; planets and satellites: individual (GJ 436b) stars: individual (GJ 436b)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886875594     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/34     Document Type: Article

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