New worlds on the horizon: Earth-sized planets close to other stars

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5848, 2007, Pages 210-213

  Gaidos, Eric ^a,b   Haghighipour, Nader ^b,c   Agol, Eric ^d   Latham, David ^e   Raymond, Sean ^b,f   Rayner, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; JUPITER; SATURN; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASTRONOMY; BLUE LIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; HABITAT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE AND SPACE RELATED PHENOMENA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTRUM; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ASTRONOMY; CARBON; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANETS; WATER;

EID: 35348862446     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144358     Document Type: Review

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