Constraining Stellar Photospheres as an Essential Step for Transmission Spectroscopy of Small Exoplanets
Abstract
Transmission spectra probe the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, but these observations are also subject to signals introduced by magnetic active regions on host stars. We outline scientific opportunities in the next decade for providing useful constraints on stellar photospheres for the purposes of exoplanet transmission spectroscopy.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1903.06152
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.06152
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.328R
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Science white paper submitted in response to the the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's call for community input to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey