An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free ‘hot Saturn’ exoplanet
- Submitting institution
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University of Keele
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 287
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41586-018-0101-7
- Title of journal
- Nature
- Article number
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- First page
- 526
- Volume
- 557
- Issue
- 7706
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0101-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=273bfe48-f2e9-41c7-9bc2-e8a1d2430ec3
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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22
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 50
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Smalley performed a detailed spectral analysis of spectra of the host star, WASP-96, to obtain the abundances of sodium and lithium in the host star. These are displayed in Fig 2, and are crucial to then interpreting the abundances of the planet itself, thus enabling the measurement of the absolute sodium abundance in the planet's atmosphere, as reported in the Abstract. Smalley's analysis and results also underpin the mass-metallicity plot (Figure 3), and the Extended Data Figure 7, showing the ratio of stellar and planet metallicities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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