Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21310101b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #101.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.188
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Approximately 300 exoplanets, mostly giant planets in the Jovian mass range, but also more than 40 "Neptune-mass" planets, have been detected orbiting stars in the solar neighborhood. More than 15% of them are transiting their primaries and these have collectively yielded a wealth of structural and physical information which theorists are scrambling to interpret. Amazingly, a number of these giant planets have recently been detected directly by the Spitzer infrared space telescope. These constitute the first remote-sensing data of extrasolar worlds. I will present the embryonic theory of such irradiated giant planets and discuss what we have learned about their atmospheres and origin. We are witnessing the birth of a new astronomical discipline and I will attempt to describe its first halting steps on the scientific stage.
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