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First Detection of Polarized Scattered Light from an Exoplanetary Atmosphere
2007
Astrophysical Journal
We report the first direct detection of an exoplanet in the visible polarized light. The transiting planet HD189733b is one of the very hot Jupiters with shortest periods and, thus, smallest orbits, which makes them ideal candidates for polarimetric detections. We obtained polarimetric measurements of HD189733 in the B band well distributed over the orbital period and detected two polarization maxima near planetary elongations with a peak amplitude of ∼2·10^-4. Assuming Rayleigh scattering, we
doi:10.1086/527320
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