An educated search for transiting habitable planets: (Research Note) Targetting M dwarfs with known transiting planets
Because the planets of a system form in a flattened disk, they are expected to share similar orbital inclinations at the end of their formation. The high-precision photometric monitoring of stars known to host a transiting planet could thus reveal the transits of one or more other planets. We invest...
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EDP Sciences,
2012-10-17T19:00:41Z.
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