Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b

Helium escaping from hot gas giants. Many gas giant exoplanets orbit so close to their host star that they are heated to high temperatures, causing atmospheric gases to escape. Gas giant atmospheres are mostly hydrogen and helium, which are difficult to observe. Two papers have now observed escaping...

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Main Authors: Nortmann, Lisa (Author) , Yan, Fei (Author) , Henning, Thomas (Author) , Quirrenbach, Andreas (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 21 December 2018
In: Science
Year: 2018, Volume: 362, Issue: 6421, Pages: 1388-1391
DOI:10.1126/science.aat5348
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat5348
Verlag, Volltext: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6421/1388
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Author Notes:Lisa Nortmann, Enric Pallé, Michael Salz, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Evangelos Nagel, F. Javier Alonso-Floriano, Stefan Czesla, Fei Yan, Guo Chen, Ignas A. G. Snellen, Mathias Zechmeister, Jürgen H. M. M. Schmitt, Manuel López-Puertas, Núria Casasayas-Barris, Florian F. Bauer, Pedro J. Amado, José A. Caballero, Stefan Dreizler, Thomas Henning, Manuel Lampón, David Montes, Karan Molaverdikhani, Andreas Quirrenbach, Ansgar Reiners, Ignasi Ribas, Alejandro Sánchez-López, P. Christian Schneider, María R. Zapatero Osorio
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Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b by Nortmann, Lisa (Author) , Yan, Fei (Author) , Henning, Thomas (Author) , Quirrenbach, Andreas (Author) ,


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