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Radiative transfer processes in outer planetary atmospheres

Chapter in GIANT PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: ATMOSPHERES, COMPOSITION, AND STRUCTURE, SECOND EDITION, (2009) 215-262
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Saturn's Titan: Surface change, ammonia, and implications for atmospheric and tectonic activity

ICARUS 199:2 (2009) 429-441

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RM Nelson, LW Kamp, DL Matson, PGJ Irwin, KH Baines, MD Boryta, FE Leader, R Jaumann, WD Smythe, C Sotin, RN Clark, DP Cruikshank, P Drossart, JC Pearl, BW Hapke, J Lunine, M Combes, G Bellucci, J-P Bibring, F Capaccioni, P Cerroni, A Coradini, V Formisano, G Filacchione, RY Langevin, TB McCord, V Mennella, PD Nicholson, B Sicardy
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Sources of remotely sensed data on the giant planets

Chapter in GIANT PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: ATMOSPHERES, COMPOSITION, AND STRUCTURE, SECOND EDITION, (2009) 263-+
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Vertical structure of temperature, composition, and clouds

Chapter in GIANT PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: ATMOSPHERES, COMPOSITION, AND STRUCTURE, SECOND EDITION, (2009) 73-+
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System design and analysis of the exo-planet imaging camera and spectrograph (EPICS) for the European ELT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 7014 (2008)

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C Vérinaud, V Korkiakoskia, N Yaitskova, P Martinez, EK Markus, Jean-Luc Beuzit, Lyu Abe, Pierr, Baudozd, Anthony Boccalettid, Kjetil Dohlene, GG Raffaele, Dino Mesaf, Florian Kerberb, Hans Martin Schmidg, Lars Venema, Graeme Slater, Matthias Tecza, AT Niranjan

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One of the main science objectives of the European ELT is the direct imaging of extrasolar planets. The large aperture of the telescope has the potential to significantly enlarge the discovery space towards older gas giant exo-planets seen in reflected light. In this paper, we give an overview of the EPICS system design strategy during the phase A study. In order to tackle the critical limitations to high contrast, extensive end-to-end simulations will be developed since the start to test different scenarios and guide the overall design. Keywords: Extremely Large Telescope, high contrast imaging, extrasolar planets, instrumentation, adaptive optics.
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