Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7111, 2006, Pages 534-540

  Sahu, Kailash C ^a   Casertano, Stefano ^a   Bond, Howard E ^a   Valenti, Jeff ^a   Smith, T Ed ^a   Minniti, Dante ^b   Zoccali, Manuela ^b   Livio, Mario ^a   Panagia, Nino ^a   Piskunov, Nikolai ^c   Brown, Thomas M ^a   Brown, Timothy ^d   Renzini, Alvio ^e   Rich, R Michael ^f   Clarkson, Will ^a   Lubow, Stephen ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GALAXIES; ORBITS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER LINE SHIFTS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GALACTIC BULGE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ASTROPHYSICS; PLANET; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; VELOCITY;

EID: 33749524668     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05158     Document Type: Article

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