Exoclimes III Conference – First Announcement
The exoclimes.org website has recently announced the scientific conference “Exoclimes III – the Diversity of Planetary atmospheres”, which will take place February 9-14th, 2014, in…
The Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres
The exoclimes.org website has recently announced the scientific conference “Exoclimes III – the Diversity of Planetary atmospheres”, which will take place February 9-14th, 2014, in…
An outline of the paper: IRSF SIRIUS JHKs Simultaneous Transit Photometry of GJ1214b, by Narita et al. The transmission spectrum of GJ 1214b has in previous…
An outline of the paper: The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection by Adam J. Burgasser In my last post, I talked about how brown dwarfs and hot-Jupiters can…
An outline of the paper: The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection by Adam J. Burgasser Measuring the atmospheres of exoplanets can be a tricky business (trust me, I’ve…
Detection of Na absorption in the transmission spectrum of WASP-17b using the MIKE spectrograph on Magellan: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6895 Inspired by the doppler-shifted CO lines observed in…
An outline of the paper: Neglected clouds in T and Y dwarf atmospheres. by C. Morley et al. As brown dwarfs slowly cool, a variety of species…
Application of new data analysis techniques to unveil an additional two super Earths and a possible outer gas giant in RV data for GJ676A, which…
An outline of the paper: Detection of transiting Jovian exoplanets by Gaia photometry – expected yield by Yifat Dzigan and Shay Zucker Gaia is a planned European Space…
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…
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…
