The hottest planet

Joseph Harrington (), Statia Luszcz, Sara Seager, Drake Deming and L. Jeremy Richardson
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Joseph Harrington: University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2385, USA
Statia Luszcz: Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-6801, USA
Sara Seager: Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Drake Deming: Planetary Systems Laboratory, Code 693
L. Jeremy Richardson: Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Code 667, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771-0001, USA

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7145, 691-693

Abstract: Mirror image The newly discovered 'hot Jupiter' HD 149026b is the hottest planet known. At around 2,300 K, its temperature is higher than that of many low-mass stars. Its atmosphere is unusual too, since it seems to instantly re-radiate any light that falls upon it.

Date: 2007
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