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Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 411))

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The study of exoplanets is arguably the most exciting and fastest-growing field in astrophysics. Given the youth of exoplanet science, the field is strongly driven by observations. Here we summarise current knowledge of the atmospheres and wider environments of the known exoplanets giving particular emphasis on the upper atmospheres and the surrounding environment, rather than on the deeper atmospheric layers.

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    Ballester et al. (2007) interpreted the deep transit of HD 209458b that they obtained with HST/STIS in the region across the Balmer jump as absorption caused by thermospheric/exospheric hot hydrogen, while later observations and theoretical works led to the conclusion this detection was due to Rayleigh scattering (Sing et al. 2011a; Christie et al. 2013; Vidal-Madjar et al. 2013).

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The authors acknowledge the support by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland and the ISSI team Characterizing stellar- and exoplanetary environments and thank Lotfi Ben-Jaffel from the Institut Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) CNRS-UPMC, Paris and Tommi Koskinen from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona, Tucson, USA for fruitful discussions.

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    Luca Fossati

  2. Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Carole A. Haswell

  3. JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, 440UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309-0440, USA

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  4. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Schmiedlstrasse 6, A-8042, Graz, Austria

    Kristina G. Kislyakova

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Fossati, L., Haswell, C.A., Linsky, J.L., Kislyakova, K.G. (2015). Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Surrounding Environments. In: Lammer, H., Khodachenko, M. (eds) Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09749-7_4

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