Atmospheric lensing and oblateness effects during an extrasolar planetary transit

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 572, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 540-555

  Hui, Lam ^a,b   Seager, Sara ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravitational lensing; Planetary systems; Stars: atmospheres

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041530207     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340017     Document Type: Article

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