A cloudy view of exoplanets

Drake Deming
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Drake Deming: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA. leo.d.deming@nasa.gov

Nature, 2010, vol. 468, issue 7324, 636-637

Abstract: The lack of absorption features in the transmission spectrum of exoplanet GJ 1214b rules out a hydrogen-rich atmosphere for the planet. It is consistent with an atmosphere rich in water vapour or abundant in clouds. See Letter p.669

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/468636a

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