"‘Hot Jupiters': Water Depletion Explained" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2015 9:44 p.m. PST |
"Planets that transit across their star as seen from Earth allow us to use transmission spectroscopy to study their atmospheres. The idea is straightforward: Even though we can't see the planet at optical wavelengths, we can examine the starlight that travels through its outer atmosphere during the transit. Each atmosphere leaves its own signature, and the atmospheres of some of the ‘hot Jupiters' thus far studied have raised questions. Why do some of these worlds have less water than our models of their atmospheres would predict? Is this an indication that such planets formed in protoplanetary disks that were depleted of water? A new study brings us some answers by going to work on eight hot Jupiters (WASP-6b, WASP-12b, WASP-17b, WASP-19b, WASP-31b, WASP-39b, HAT-P-1b and HAT-P-12b) using the Hubble Space Telescope. The worlds chosen here offer a wide range of temperature, surface gravity, mass and radii. All eight were observed at optical wavelengths using Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument, while two of them (WASP-31b and HAT-P-1b) were also observed in the near infrared with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3…"
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