The upper atmosphere of the exoplanet HD209458b revealed by the sodium D lines: temperature-pressure profile, ionization layer and thermosphere (Corrigendum)
A. Vidal-Madjar1, C. M Huitson2, A. Lecavelier des Etangs1, D. K. Sing2, R. Ferlet1, J.-M. Désert3, G. Hébrard1, I. Boisse1, D. Ehrenreich4 and C. Moutou5
1
CNRS, UPMC, Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095,
98bis boulevard Arago,
75014
Paris,
France
e-mail: alfred@iap.fr
2
Astrophysics Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter,
Stocker Road,
Exeter
EX4 4QL,
UK
3
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St.,
Cambridge,
MA
02138,
USA
4
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, Université Joseph
Fourier, CNRS (UMR 5571), BP
53, 38041
Grenoble Cedex 9,
France
5
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille,Technopôle Marseille Étoile,
38 rue
Frédéric Joliot Curie, 13013
Marseille,
France
An error was detected in the code used for the analysis of the HD209458b sodium profile (Vidal-Madjar et al. 2011). Here we present an updated T-P profile and briefly discuss the consequences.
Key words: methods: observational / techniques: spectroscopic / planets and satellites: atmospheres / methods: data analysis / Errata, addenda / stars: individual: HD209458
© ESO, 2011

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