TRANSITS AND OCCULTATIONS OF AN EARTH-SIZED PLANET IN AN 8.5 hr ORBIT
We report the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (1.16 ± 0.19 R [subscript ⊕]) in an 8.5 hr orbit around a late G-type star (KIC 8435766, Kepler-xx). The object was identified in a search for short-period planets in the Kepler database and confirmed to be a transiting planet (as opposed to an eclips...
Main Authors: | Kotson, Michael C. (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Buchhave, Lars A. (Author), Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto (Contributor), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Rappaport, Saul A (Author), Levine, Alan M (Author) |
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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) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
IOP Publishing,
2014-08-11T18:35:01Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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