JWST NIRSpec G395HWASP-39b

Lili Alderson1, Hannah R Wakeford2, Munazza K Alam3

  • 1School of Physics, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. lili.alderson@bristol.ac.uk.

Nature
|January 9, 2023
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,ジェームズ・ウェブ宇宙望遠鏡 (JWST) を使用して,WASP-39bの外惑星の大気中の二酸化炭素 (CO2),水 (H2O) および二酸化硫黄 (SO2) を検出した. これらの発見は,系外惑星の形成と大気化学に関する新しい洞察を提供します.

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