Chemical Compositions of Extrasolar Planets

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• Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
• Tuesday 27 January 2015, 19:30-20:30
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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Exoplanetary discoveries in the past two decades have unveiled an astonishing diversity in the physical characteristics of exoplanetary systems, including their orbital properties, masses, radii, equilibrium temperatures, and stellar hosts. Exoplanets known today range from gas-giants to nearly Earth-size planets, and some even in the habitable zones of their host stars. Recent advances in exoplanet observations and theoretical methods are now leading to unprecedented constraints on the physicochemical properties of exoplanetary atmospheres, interiors, and their formation conditions. I will discuss the latest developments and future prospects of this new frontier. In particular, I will present some of the latest constraints on atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets, made possible by state-of-the-art high-precision observations, and their implications for atmospheric processes, interior compositions, and formation conditions of exoplanets.

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS) series.

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