Discovery and Characterization of Transiting Super Earths Using an All-Sky Transit Survey and Follow-up by the James Webb Space Telescope

Discovery and Characterization of Transiting Super Earths Using an All-Sky Transit Survey and Follow-up by the James Webb Space Telescope

Doppler and transit surveys are finding extrasolar planets of ever smaller mass and radius, and are now sampling the domain of super Earths (1-3R⊕). Recent results from the Doppler surveys suggest that discovery of a transiting super Earth in the habitable zone of a lower main sequence star may be p...

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Main Authors: Seager, Sara (Contributor), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Deming, Drake (Author), Miller-Ricci, Eliza (Author), Clampin, M. (Author), Lindler, D. (Author), Greene, Tom (Author), Charbonneau, David (Author), Laughlin, G. P. (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Ennico, K. (Author), Ricker, George R (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Ricker, George R. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, The, 2012-10-16T17:22:50Z.
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