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Title: |
Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets
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450
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Year: |
2012
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Editors: |
J. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, and G. Tinetti
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Synopsis: |
The science of extrasolar planets (exoplanets) is one of the most rapidly changing and exciting areas of astrophysics. Since 1995, the number of known exoplanets has increased by two orders of magnitude (700 planets have been detected and over 1000 more await confirmation). NASA’s Kepler mission has opened up the possibility of discovering Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around some of the 100,000 stars it is surveying during its lifetime. The new ESA-Gaia mission is expected to discover thousands of new exoplanets.
The observation of exoplanet atmospheres is now at the cutting edge of exoplanet science. For transiting exoplanets, this has proved to be feasible using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and ground-based facilities. Molecules such as water-vapor, methane, carbon-monoxide and carbon-dioxide have been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. While most early exoplanet discoveries were hot giant planets, warm gaseous-rocky planets such as GJ 1214b are now within reach. Most recently, the first spectrum of a hot giant planet at a projected separation of 38 AU from its host star was observed with VLT’s adaptive optics coronagraph NACO.
The young exoplanets that high-perfromance adaptive optics instruments (VLT-SPHERE and the Gemini Planet Imager) are expected to find are likely to feature several molecular species. Several more important new facilities are planned for the coming decade (the James Webb Space Telescope,-the European Extremely Large Telescope, The Thirty Meter Telescope, and the Japanese SPICA infrared space telescope, for example). Other dedicated missions to spectroscopically characterize alien worlds are now being considered by NASA and ESA (FINESSE and EChO).
The main purpose of the conference was to convene different scientific communities: solar-system planetary scientists, brown dwarf and exoplanet observers and theoreticians, molecular spectroscopists, and instrument experts. The “exoplanet revolution” has indeed started and it has irreversibly changed our views about planets and stars, and the ways in which they are formed. This conference as described in these proceedings marks a milestone in that direction.
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Authors |
Front Matter |
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Front Matter |
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J. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, and G. Tinetti |
Conference Photos |
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J. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, and G. Tinetti |
Part I. Planets in the Solar System: Overview |
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The Composition of Planetary Atmospheres: An Historical Perspective |
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Lellouch, E. |
The Molecular Ion H3+ in Emission in Planetary Atmospheres |
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Maillard, J.; Miller, S. |
Part II. Exoplanet Atmospheres from Transit Observations |
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Lessons Learned from Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets |
39 |
Snellen, I.; Albrecht, S.; de Mooij, E.; Poole, R. L. |
The Search for Exomoons |
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Kipping, D. M. |
Ground Based Imaging Spectroscopy of Transiting Extrasolar Planets |
55 |
Angerhausen, D.; Krabbe, A. |
Ground-based Detection of the Secondary Eclipse of TrES-3b |
59 |
de Mooij, E.; Snellen, I. |
Exoplanet Spectroscopy: The Hubble Case |
63 |
Deroo, P.; Swain, M.; Vasisht, G.; Chen, P.; Tinetti, G.; Bouwman, J.; Angerhausen, D.; Yung, Y. |
Part III. Exoplanet Atmospheric Dynamics |
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Atmospheric Dynamics of Two Eccentric Transiting Planets: GJ 436b and HD 17156b |
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Lewis, N. K.; Showman, A. P.; Fortney, J. J.; Marley, M. S.; Freedman, R. S. |
Part IV. Molecular Data-lists and Modelling |
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The Acetylene Laboratory IR Spectrum: New Quantitative Studies |
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Jaccquemart, D.; Lacome, N.; Gomez, L.; MANDIN, J. |
Collisional Line Profiles of Na Perturbed by H2 |
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Allard, N. F. |
VUV Photophysics of Prebiotic Molecules in the Context of the Search for Life
on exoplanets |
91 |
Leach, S. |
Signatures of Water Clouds on Exoplanets: Numerical Simulations. |
101 |
Karalidi, T.; Stam, D. M.; Keller, C. U. |
On the Protoplanetary-disk Origin of the Atmospheres of Hot Super-Earths |
105 |
Ikoma, M. |
Part V. Brown Dwarfs |
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The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection |
113 |
Burgasser, A. J. |
Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Dust Clouds in the Atmospheres of Substellar Objects |
125 |
Freytag, B.; Allard, F.; Homeier, D.; Ludwig, H.; Steffen, M. |
Part VI. Terrestrial Exoplanets: Modelling, Habitability, and Detection of Biosignatures |
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The Loss of Nitrogen-rich Atmospheres from Earth-like Exoplanets within M-star Habitable Zones |
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Lammer, H.; Lichtenegger, H. I. M.; Khodachenko, M. L.; Kulikov, Y. N.; Griessmeier, J. |
EXOFIT: Bayesian Estimation of Orbital Parameters of Extrasolar Planets |
147 |
Balan, S. T.; Lahav, O. |
What could be observed in the case of Super-Ios and Hyper-Ios? |
155 |
Briot, D.; Lellouch, E.; Schneider, J. |
Part VII. The Future: Short and Long Term Missions and Instruments to Characterise Exoplanet Atmospheres |
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Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets: Overview of Ground and Space Programs |
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Boccaletti, A. |
The Potential of High Contrast Coronagraphy |
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Serabyn, E. |
SPICA Coronagraph for the Direct Observation of Exo-Planets |
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Enya, K.; group, S. w. |
Follow the Dust: Discovery of an Exosolar Planet in Fomalhaut's Debris Disk |
191 |
Clampin, M.; Kalas, P.; Graham, J.; Chiang, E. |
High-Contrast Imaging:
A Wider View on Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
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Bonavita, M.; Claudi, R. U.; Tinetti, G.; Beuzit, J.; Chauvin, G.; Desidera, S.; Gratton, R.; Kasper, M. |
High Contrast Imaging: A New Frontier for Exoplanets Search and Characterization |
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Claudi, R. U.; Bonavita, M.; Desidera, S.; Gratton, R.; Tinetti, G.; Beuzit, J.; Kasper, M.; Mordassini, C. |
Detailed Spectroscopy of Exoplanets
Using the New Worlds Observer |
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Cash, W.; Team, t. N. W. O. |
Spectral Analysis of Atmospheres by Nulling Interferometry |
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Ollivier, M.; Jacquinod, S. |
A Spectroscopic Method for Direct Detection of Exoplanets |
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Cubillos, P.; Rojo, P.; Fortney, J. |
Detection of Extrasolar Comets |
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Hainaut, O. R. |
Part VIII. The Reception |
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The Reception |
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J. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, and G. Tinetti |
Back Matter |
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Back Matter |
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J. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, and G. Tinetti |
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