Exoplanetary Atmospheres
@inproceedings{Madhusudhan2014ExoplanetaryA, title={Exoplanetary Atmospheres}, author={Nikku Madhusudhan and Heather A. Knutson and Jonathan J. Fortney and Travis S. Barman}, year={2014} }
Exoplanetary discoveries in the past two decades have unveiled an astonishing diversity in the physical characteristics of exoplanetary systems, including their orbital properties, masses, radii, equilibrium temperatures, and stellar hosts. Exoplanets known today range from gasgiants to nearly Earth-size planets, and some even in the habitable zones of their host stars. Recent advances in exoplanet observations and theoretical methods are now leading to unprecedented constraints on the…
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