Sentences with phrase «exoplanet atmospheric composition»

Not exact matches

Astronomers have been able to determine the surface and atmospheric composition of only a few exoplanets, so for most planets the data are incomplete.

The atmospheric composition of WASP - 39b hints that the formation processes of exoplanets can be very different from those of our own Solar System giants.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

«Understanding the links between stratospheres and chemical compositions is critical to studying atmospheric processes in exoplanets,» said co-author Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Such measurements will probe the atmospheric structure and composition, providing unique information useful not just in the solar system but also in the study of Jupiter - like exoplanets, where no comparable data will be available for the foreseeable future.

The results of such models will be compared to the ever growing exoplanet database, as we work to understand what conditions are necessary to produce the observed exoplanet systems, both in terms of their orbital architectures and atmospheric compositions.

With HST - Spitzer transit and eclipse observations we constrain the compositions and atmospheric thermal structure of twenty of the brightest exoplanets.

I will discuss the range of magma ocean planets that may be in our current exoplanet sample and some of the implications for atmospheric composition and long - term evolution of these planets.

«Understanding the links between stratospheres and chemical compositions is critical to studying atmospheric processes in exoplanets,» co-author Nikku Madhusudhan from the University of Cambridge, said in the statement.