The Role of Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres

云在系外行星大气中的作用

• 批准号: DP160103231
• 负责人: Prof Jeremy Bailey
• 金额: $ 24.28万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160103231
• 关键词: Role; Clouds; Exoplanet; Atmospheres

This project seeks to establish whether clouds are important in exoplanets and how their occurrence varies with temperature and other properties. Clouds have major impacts on the structure and composition of a planetary atmosphere, and particularly the appearance of a planet in reflected light. They are important in establishing our ability to directly detect planets and further characterise their atmospheres using direct imaging. The project plans to use advanced radiative transfer modelling together with a range of observations, including those from a new high precision polarimeter.

该项目旨在确定云在系外行星中是否重要，以及它们的发生如何随温度和其他特性而变化。云对行星气氛的结构和组成产生了重大影响，尤其是在反射光中的行星外观。它们对于建立我们直接检测行星并使用直接成像进一步表征其气氛的能力很重要。该项目计划使用高级辐射转移建模以及一系列观察结果，包括来自新的高精度偏振计的观测值。