Empirical constraints on the oblateness of an exoplanet

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 709, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1219-1229

  Carter, Joshua A ^a   Winn, Joshua N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: Numerical; Planetary systems; Techniques: Photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952914564     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/709/2/1219     Document Type: Article

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