| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2010
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| Host editors |
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V. Coudé du Foresto
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D.M. Gelino
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I. Ribas
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| Book title |
Pathways Towards Habitable Planets
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| Book subtitle |
proceedings of a workshop held by the Spanish CSIC, the Catalan IEEC, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and the Blue Dots Initiative at CosmoCaixa, the Barcelona Museum of Science in Barcelona, Spain, 14-18 September 2009
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| ISBN |
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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| Series |
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series
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| Event |
conference "Pathways towards habitable planets"
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| Pages (from-to) |
466-468
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| Publisher |
San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
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| Abstract |
We present numerically simulated flux and polarisation signals of starlight that is reflected by Earth–like exoplanets covered by liquid water clouds at different altitudes, at wavelengths from 0.3 to 1.0μm. Our results show that the degree of polarisation of this reflected light is more sensitive to the cloud top pressure than the flux. The results clearly illustrate the advantages of polarimetry for the characterisation of clouds in exoplanet atmospheres.
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| Document type |
Conference contribution
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
http://aspbooks.org/custom/publications/paper/430-0466.html
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