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The Structure of Exoplanets
David S. Spiegel, Jonathan J. Fortney, Christophe Sotin
The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, th…
Direct Imaging Detection of Methane in the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b
M. Janson, T. Brandt, M. Kuzuhara +54
Most exoplanets detected by direct imaging so far have been characterized by relatively hot (> ~1000 K) and cloudy atmospheres. A surprising feature in some of their atmospheres ha…
Targeting Young Stars with Kepler: Planet Formation, Migration Mechanisms and the Early History of Planetary Systems
James P. Lloyd, Jonathan I. Lunine, Eric Mamajek +7
This white paper discusses a repurposed mission for the Kepler spacecraft that focusses on solving outstanding problems in planet formation and evolution by targeting the study of…
Direct Imaging of a Cold Jovian Exoplanet in Orbit around the Sun-like Star GJ 504
M. Kuzuhara, M. Tamura, T. Kudo +54
Several exoplanets have recently been imaged at wide separations of >10 AU from their parent stars. These span a limited range of ages (<50 Myr) and atmospheric properties, with te…
A simple, quantitative method to infer the minimum atmospheric height of small exoplanets
David M. Kipping, David S. Spiegel, Dimitar D. Sasselov
Amongst the many hundreds of transiting planet candidates discovered by the Kepler Mission, one finds a large number of candidates with sizes between that of the Earth and Neptune.…
Thermal Processes Governing Hot-Jupiter Radii
David S. Spiegel, Adam Burrows
There have been many proposed explanations for the larger-than-expected radii of some transiting hot Jupiters, including either stellar or orbital energy deposition deep in the atm…