The Importance of Thermal Emission Spectroscopy for Understanding Terrestrial Exoplanets

Author(s)
Michael Line, Sascha P. Quanz, Edward W. Schwieterman, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kevin B. Stevenson, Tom Greene, Robert Zellem, Caroline Morley, Tiffany Kataria, Luke Tremblay, Bertrand Mennesson, Aishwarya Iyer, Dimitri Mawet, Nicolas Iro, Lisa Kaltenegger, Denis Defrere, Edwin S. Kite, Douglas A. Caldwell, Evgenya Shkolnik, Diana Dragomir, Henry Ngo, Jasmina Blecic, Tim Lichtenberg, Daniel Angerhausen, Arif Solmaz, Eric T. Wolf, John Monnier, Brian Hicks, Stephen R. Kane, William Danchi, Keivan Stassun, Diana Valencia, Johannes Staguhn
Abstract

The primary objective of this white paper is to illustrate the importance of the thermal infrared in characterizing terrestrial planets leveraging our experience in characterizing extra-solar jovian worlds.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
Journal
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
Volume
51
ISSN
0002-7537
Publication date
05-2019
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d5733dcc-b0c2-474d-8392-2b9b7027fcbd