Infrared Light from Extrasolar Planets

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.1201d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #12.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.431

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Since 2005, observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope have detected infrared light from close-in giant extrasolar planets, primarily by observing the decrement in combined light during secondary eclipse. The wavelength dependence of secondary eclipse amplitude represents the emitted spectrum of the planet, and this information has been obtained at spectral resolving powers as high as 100. The sensitivity of Spitzer at photometric resolving power ( 10) extends down to Neptune-sized planets, and one such planet has already been detected during secondary eclipse. The forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope should be able to extend these measurements to super-Earth-sized transiting planets in the habitable zones of lower main sequence stars.

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