Ground-based near-UV observations of 15 transiting exoplanets: constraints on their atmospheres and no evidence for asymmetrical transits

NASA's Planetary Atmospheres programme; Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship Program; National Science Foundation [DGE-1315231]; University of Arizona Astronomy Club; Steward Observatory TAC; Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

• Publication date

  2016-03-08

• Fields of study

  Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/mnras/stw574arXiv 1603.02587
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