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CEPSAR Lecture

Detection and characterisation of transiting extra-solar planets

Prof Andrew Collier Cameron
This event took place on 26th October 2007 at 2:00pm (13:00 GMT)
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Among more than 200 extra-solar planets discovered since 1995, the 20 or so that transit their host stars are of special importance.
Their radii and masses can be measured directly, and combined with structural models give important insights into their interior structures and formation histories. Their thermal-infrared radiation can be isolated as they pass behind the host star, giving us a glimpse of the thermal structure of their upper atmospheres, and their atmospheric transmission spectra probe their atmospheric chemistry. Professor Cameron will discuss progress with ambitious wide-field photometric surveys aimed at discovering dozens of such planets, and give an overview of present and future space missions that offer the prospect of characterising ice-giants and super-Earths in the same way.

Coffee will be available in the foyer from 1.30pm

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