A STUDY OF THE SHORTEST-PERIOD PLANETS FOUND WITH KEPLER

A STUDY OF THE SHORTEST-PERIOD PLANETS FOUND WITH KEPLER

We present the results of a survey aimed at discovering and studying transiting planets with orbital periods shorter than one day (ultra-short-period, or USP, planets), using data from the Kepler spacecraft. We computed Fourier transforms of the photometric time series for all 200,000 target stars,...

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Main Authors: Kotson, Michael C. (Author), Mellah, Ileyk El (Author), Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto (Contributor), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Rappaport, Saul A (Author), Levine, Alan M (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Rappaport, Saul A. (Contributor), Levine, Alan M. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2014-08-11T18:13:10Z.
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