A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7275, 2009, Pages 891-894

  Charbonneau, David ^a   Berta, Zachory K ^a   Irwin, Jonathan ^a   Burke, Christopher J ^a   Nutzman, Philip ^a   Buchhave, Lars A ^a,b   Lovis, Christophe ^c   Bonfils, Xavier ^c,d   Latham, David W ^a   Udry, Stéphane ^c   Murray Clay, Ruth A ^a   Holman, Matthew J ^a   Falco, Emilio E ^a   Winn, Joshua N ^d   Queloz, Didier ^c   Pepe, Francesco ^c   Mayor, Michel ^c   Delfosse, Xavier ^d   Forveille, Thierry ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HYDROGEN; ICE;

ASTRONOMY; HELIUM; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE TECHNOLOGY; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 72449205443     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08679     Document Type: Article

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