[Baps] Tim Brown's talk today: Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres and Related Pleasures

[Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay]

Tim Brown
NCAR
Today, Monday, June 13.

12:30pm in Pratt Conference Room, Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St.

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Title:  Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres and Related Pleasures


Abstract:  Observational data about atmospheres of the hot,
strongly-irradiated planets of distant stars are hard to come by. So far,
they are nonexistent except for a few planets that, as seen from Earth,
transit the disks of their parent stars.  But with the increasing number of
such planets (7 are published, as of this writing), information is starting
to dribble in. In this talk, I will describe the expected properties of
these planetary atmospheres, the existing observations (including some
significant upper limits), and the inferences that one may draw about
physical conditions on these exotic objects.  Along the way, I will take a
short inspirational look at the planet Venus.

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