Construction of an earth model: Analysis of exoplanet light curves and mapping the next earth with the new worlds observer

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 700, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1428-1439

  Oakley, P H H ^a   Cash, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Earth; Instrumentation: miscellaneous; Scattering; Space vehicles; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449920908     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1428     Document Type: Article

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