Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 47, 2013
Hot Planets and Cool Stars
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Article Number | 11001 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Transit Spectroscopy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134711001 | |
Published online | 25 April 2013 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134711001
Characterization of exoplanet atmospheres using high-dispersion spectroscopy with the E-ELT and beyond
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Postbus 5913, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
a e-mail: snellen@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Ground-based high-dispersion (R ∼ 100,000) spectroscopy provides unique information on exoplanet atmospheres, inaccessible from space - even using the JWST or other future space telescopes. Recent successes in transmission- and dayside spectroscopy using CRIRES on the Very Large Telescope prelude the enormous discovery potential of high-dispersion spectrographs on the E-ELT, such as METIS in the thermal infrared, and HIRES in the optical/near-infrared. This includes the orbital inclination and masses of hundred(s) of non-transiting planets, line-by-line molecular band spectra, planet rotation and global wind patterns, longitudinal spectral variations, and possibly isotopologue ratios. Thinking beyond the E-ELT, we advocate that ultimately a systematic search for oxygen in atmospheres of nearby Earth-like planets can be conducted using large arrays of relatively low-cost flux collector telescopes equipped with high-dispersion spectrographs.
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