OBSERVATIONS OF DOPPLER BOOSTING IN KEPLER LIGHT CURVES

OBSERVATIONS OF DOPPLER BOOSTING IN KEPLER LIGHT CURVES

Among the initial results from Kepler were two striking light curves, for KOI 74 and KOI 81, in which the relative depths of the primary and secondary eclipses showed that the more compact, less luminous object was hotter than its stellar host. That result became particularly intriguing because a su...

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Main Authors: van Kerkwijk, Marten H. (Author), Breton, Rene P. (Author), Justham, Stephen (Author), Podsiadlowski, Philipp (Author), Han, Zhanwen (Author), Rappaport, Saul A (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Rappaport, Saul A. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-03-04T20:15:42Z.
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