Molecular opacities for exoplanets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2014, 2014, Pages

  Bernath, Peter F ^a,b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exoplanet spectroscopy; Hot Jupiters; Infrared spectroscopy; Laboratory astrophysics; Molecular opacities; Super Earths

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPACITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; EXOPLANET; JUPITERS; LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING; SUPER-EARTHS;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS;

EID: 84896929005     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0087     Document Type: Review

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