The Featureless Transmission Spectra of Two Super-puff Planets
The Kepler mission revealed a class of planets known as "super-puffs," with masses only a few times larger than Earth's but radii larger than Neptune, giving them very low mean densities. All three of the known planets orbiting the young solar-type star Kepler 51 are super-puffs. The...
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Published in | The Astronomical journal Vol. 159; no. 2; pp. 57 - 76 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Goddard Space Flight Center
The American Astronomical Society
01.02.2020
American Astronomical Society / IOP Publishing IOP Publishing |
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