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Geometric Albedo

Geometric Albedo is the ratio of the brightness of a celestial body at zero phase angle to that of a perfectly diffusing disk of the same size and distance, serving as a measure of its reflectivity under direct illumination.

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Reflected Spectra and Albedos of Extrasolar Giant Planets. I. Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres

The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 311 citations · Full text

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INFERENCE OF INHOMOGENEOUS CLOUDS IN AN EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERE

Brice-Olivier Demory, Julien de Wit, Nikole K. Lewis et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2013 · 293 citations · Full text

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Galilean Satellites: Identification of Water Frost

C. B. Pilcher, Stephen T. Ridgway, T. B. McCord · Science · 1972 · 242 citations

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The Very Low Albedo of an Extrasolar Planet:<i>MOST</i>Space‐based Photometry of HD 209458

Jason F. Rowe, J. M. Matthews, Sara Seager et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2008 · 211 citations · Full text

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The rings of Uranus

J. L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham · Nature · 1977 · 201 citations

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  1. MG
    M. Gillon

    University of Liège, Belgium

    10 publications · 905 citations

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    Thomas Müller

    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

    9 publications · 315 citations

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  3. SS
    Sara Seager

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. AP
    András Pál

    Konkoly Observatory, Hungary

    8 publications · 260 citations

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  5. AC
    A. Collier Cameron

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 401 citations

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Pasadena, United States

    31 h-index

    102 publications

    7.7K citations

  2. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    25 h-index

    97 publications

    7.7K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    121 publications

    6.5K citations

  4. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    21 h-index

    79 publications

    6.2K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    48 publications

    3.6K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    40 publications

    5K citations

  7. University of Hawaii System

    Honolulu, United States

    19 h-index

    55 publications

    4.5K citations

  8. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    19 h-index

    69 publications

    6.4K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 42 publications · 2.9K citations

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  2. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 47 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. Icarus

    37 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    33 publications · 1.2K citations

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