Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

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Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 21 06 2023
accepted: 27 09 2023
medline: 24 11 2023
pubmed: 23 11 2023
entrez: 22 11 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The abundances of main carbon- and oxygen-bearing gases in the atmospheres of giant exoplanets provide insights into atmospheric chemistry and planet formation processes

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pubmed: 37993572
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06687-0
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06687-0
doi:

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eng

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709-712

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Taylor J Bell (TJ)

Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA. bell@baeri.org.
Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA. bell@baeri.org.

Luis Welbanks (L)

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Everett Schlawin (E)

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Michael R Line (MR)

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Jonathan J Fortney (JJ)

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Thomas P Greene (TP)

Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

Kazumasa Ohno (K)

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Division of Science, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

Vivien Parmentier (V)

Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.

Emily Rauscher (E)

Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Thomas G Beatty (TG)

Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

Sagnick Mukherjee (S)

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Lindsey S Wiser (LS)

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Martha L Boyer (ML)

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Marcia J Rieke (MJ)

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

John A Stansberry (JA)

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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