3.6 and 4.5 micron phase curves of HD 189733b
An outline of the paper: 3.6 AND 4.5 μm PHASE CURVES AND EVIDENCE FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM CHEMISTRY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733B by Knutson…
The Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres
An outline of the paper: 3.6 AND 4.5 μm PHASE CURVES AND EVIDENCE FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM CHEMISTRY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733B by Knutson…
So, after the transit of Venus, back to other planetary transits far, far away. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope will turn to WASP-17, to measure…
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…
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…
What does the sunset look like on HD 189733 b? Amazingly, we know quite accurately. This is because the colour of the sunset is exactly…
An outline of the paper: Optimal Estimation Retrievals of the Atmospheric Structure and Composition of HD 189733b from Secondary Eclipse Spectroscopy by Lee et al. (2011)…
The transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733 b is one of the most favourable targets we have for measuring the structure and composition of an exoplanet’s…
The effects of snowlines on C/O in planetary atmospheres by Karin Öberg, Ruth Murray-Clay and Edwin Bergin In a series of papers, Nikku Madhusudhan and…
An outline of the paper: A Survey of Alkali Line Absorption in Exoplanetary Atmospheres by A. G. Jensen et al. As exoplanet detections are becoming more…