Variable winds on hot giant exoplanet help study of magnetic field
Monday, May 15, 2017 - 16:02
in Astronomy & Space
Senior Scientist Tamara M. Rogers of the Planetary Science Institute has discovered that substantial variability in the winds on the hot giant exoplanet HAT-P-7b are due to magnetism, and used those measurements to develop a new method to constrain the magnetic field of such an object.