Colour of the sunset on WASP-12 b
A few weeks ago at the Heidelberg meeting, David Sing presented the spectrum of WASP-12b between 300 nm and 600 nm (near-UV to red). This…
The Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres
A few weeks ago at the Heidelberg meeting, David Sing presented the spectrum of WASP-12b between 300 nm and 600 nm (near-UV to red). This…
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 Flat Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth GJ1214b from Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope by Berta et al….
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…
Hi all and welcome to my, Nathan Mayne‘s, digest of the Wednesday morning session at the Exoclimes conference in Aspen. A session dominated by observers,…
The First Known Transiting Planet HD 209458 b was the first planet confirmed using the transit method. The light dimming due to its transit was…
What does the sunset look like on HD 209458 b? Amazingly, we know quite accurately. This is because the colour of the sunset is exactly…
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: Transmission spectrum of Venus as a transiting Exoplanet by Ehrenreich. et al. On the 5-6 June 2012 the planet Venus…
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…
