An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7259, 2009, Pages 1098-1100

  Hellier, Coel ^a   Anderson, D R ^a   Cameron, A Collier ^b   Gillon, M ^c,d   Hebb, L ^b   Maxted, P F L ^a   Queloz, D ^c   Smalley, B ^a   Triaud, A H M J ^c   West, R G ^e   Wilson, D M ^a   Bentley, S J ^a   Enoch, B ^b   Horne, K ^b   Irwin, J ^f   Lister, T A ^g   Mayor, M ^c   Parley, N ^b   Pepe, F ^c   Pollacco, D L ^h   Segransan, D ^c   Udry, S ^c   Wheatley, P J ⁱ   more..

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^h QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; JUPITER; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TIDAL VOLUME; WASP 18 PLANET;

EID: 69349094770     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08245     Document Type: Article

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