Design considerations for a ground-based transit search for habitable planets orbiting M dwarfs

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Volumn 120, Issue 865, 2008, Pages 317-327

  Nutzman, Philip ^a   Charbonneau, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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EID: 49249103616     PISSN: 00046280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/533420     Document Type: Article

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