The use of transit timing to detect terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5713, 2005, Pages 1288-1291

  Holman, Matthew J ^a   Murray, Norman W ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PLANETS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; JOVIAN-MASS PLANETS; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; TRANSIT TIMING;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

SPACE TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 14544291030     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107822     Document Type: Article

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33. This work was supported in part by NSF grant PHY99-07949 and by NASA grant NAG5-9678. This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and by the Canada Research Chair program. N.W.M. is a Canada Research Chair. We are grateful to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, where much of this investigation was carried out. We thank S. Gaudi and J. Winn for helpful discussions and careful reviews of the manuscript.