Struggling to Interpret the Transmission Spectrum of GJ 436 b Exploring the Climate of HD 189733 b with Spitzer Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606 b A map of HD 189733 b using eclipse mapping Receding shorelines on Titan Full orbit Warm Spitzer observations of WASP-12b Climate instability on tidally locked exoplanets Thermal Emission of WASP-14 b Revealed with Three Spitzer Eclipses The atmospheric chemistry of GJ 1214 b: photochemistry and clouds Transmission spectrum of Venus as a transiting exoplanet
Future space missions on exoplanet atmospheres

Future space missions on exoplanet atmospheres

A large part of our present knowledge of exoplanet atmospheres come from observations done with the Spitzer space telescope. With this mission drawing to an end, there…

Struggling to Interpret the Transmission Spectrum of GJ 436 b

Struggling to Interpret the Transmission Spectrum of GJ 436 b

An outline of the paper: A Spitzer Transmission Spectrum for the Exoplanet GJ 436b, Evidence for Stellar Variability, and Constraints on Dayside Flux Variations by Knutson…

UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012

UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012

From Tuesday 27th until Friday 30th March the 2012 National Astronomy Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society will take place in Manchester. The full schedule is…

Exploring the Climate of HD 189733 b with Spitzer

Exploring the Climate of HD 189733 b with Spitzer

An outline of the paper: The Climate of HD189733b From Fourteen Transits and Eclipses Measured by Spitzer by Eric Agol et al. Of all the instruments that…

Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606 b

Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606 b

An outline of the paper: Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606b with tunable filter transit spectrophotometry from the Gran Telescopio Canarias by Colón, K…

A map of HD 189733 b using eclipse mapping

A map of HD 189733 b using eclipse mapping

An outline of the paper: A TWO-DIMENSIONAL INFRARED MAP OF THE EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733B by Majeau, Agol & Cowan. Transiting systems offer two ways to…

Receding shorelines on Titan

Receding shorelines on Titan

An outline of the papers: Transient surface liquid in Titan’s polar regions from Cassini by Hazes et al. and Shoreline retreat at Titan’s Ontario Lacus and Arrakis…

Planetary atmospheres in 2011 (2/2)

Planetary atmospheres in 2011 (2/2)

An overview of the scientific literature on exoclimes in 2011 (if you notice some glaring omission, give us a shout in the comment section). This…

Planetary atmospheres in 2011 (1/2)

Planetary atmospheres in 2011 (1/2)

An overview of the scientific literature on exoclimes in 2011 (if you notice some glaring omission, give us a shout in the comment section).  …

Full orbit Warm Spitzer observations of WASP-12b

Full orbit Warm Spitzer observations of WASP-12b

An outline of the paper: Thermal Phase Variations of WASP-12b: Defying Predictions by Nicolas Cowan et al. A couple of months ago, Frédéric gave an update…

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