An extrasolar planet that transits the disk of its parent star

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6922, 2003, Pages 507-509

  Konacki, Maciej ^a   Torres, Guillermo ^b   Jha, Saurabh ^b,c   Sasselov, Dimitar D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EVAPORATION; LIGHT; MICROLENSES; ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; TIDES; VELOCITY;

STARS;

PLANETS;

ASTRONOMY; PLANET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; GRAVITY; MASS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037472903     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01379     Document Type: Article

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