Exploring the Ability of HST WFC3 G141 to Uncover Trends in Populations of Exoplanet Atmospheres Through a Homogeneous Transmission Survey of 70 Gaseous Planets - Astrobiology - Astrobiology News

We present the analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Retrieved abundances of H2O, CH4, HCN, NH3, TiO, VO, FeH and e- against planet equilibrium temperature. In some cases, only an upper bound on the presence of the molecule could be placed and, for the… [+3116 chars] Read More