[Baps] BU seminar - Thursday 23 February - Fortney (UCSC) on exoplanet composition

[Paul Withers]

Towards an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition
Jonathan Fortney
UCSC

Nearly all of the narratives about understanding the
composition of planets come from our understanding of the
solar system. However, this is a terribly small sample
size. In this talk I will cover several topics that shed light on
exoplanetary composition. In the realm of transiting planets,
we can use structure models and Hubble spectroscopy to
determine the mass-metallicity relation for giant planets, for
the first time. In tandem we are developing new theoretical
tools to extract constraints on atmospheric abundances from
the spectra of brown dwarfs and giant planets to look for
composition clues that distinguish these two populations. As
a whole these advances will yield fundamentally new insights
on planetary formation and evolution.

4:00pm in CAS 502. Refreshments served at 3:45pm in CAS 500.
725 Commonwealth Avenu



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Subject: 	[Announce] TOMORROW: Fortney Space Physics Seminar (2/23)
Date: 	Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:25:17 +0000
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Mary Gordon

Fiscal Coordinator | Boston University

Center for Space Physics | Institute for Astrophysical Research

725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 506 | Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Tel: 617-353-5992 | Fax: 617-353-6463

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