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The Role of Clouds in Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Mark S. Marley
Affiliation:
NASA Ames Research Center; Mail Stop 245-3; Moffett Field, CA New Mexico State University; Department of Astronomy; Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Andrew S. Ackerman
Affiliation:
NASA Ames Research Center; Mail Stop 245-4; Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA

Abstract

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Clouds and hazes are important throughout our solar system and in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets. Among the brown dwarfs, clouds control the colors and spectra of the L-dwarfs; the disappearance of clouds helps herald the arrival of the T-dwarfs. The structure and composition of clouds will be among the first remote-sensing results from the direct detection of extrasolar giant planets.

Type
Part III: Structure and atmospheres of planets
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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