A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7332, 2011, Pages 53-58

  Lissauer, Jack J ^a   Fabrycky, Daniel C ^b   Ford, Eric B ^c   Borucki, William J ^a   Fressin, Francois ^d   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^e   Orosz, Jerome A ^f   Rowe, Jason F ^a   Torres, Guillermo ^d   Welsh, William F ^f   Batalha, Natalie M ^g   Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Buchhave, Lars A ^h   Caldwell, Douglas A ^a   Carter, Joshua A ^d   Charbonneau, David ^d   Christiansen, Jessie L ^a   Cochran, William D ⁱ   Desert, Jean Michel ^d   Dunham, Edward W ^j   Fanelli, Michael N ^a   Fortney, Jonathan J ^b   Gautier Iii, Thomas N ^k   Geary, John C ^d   Gilliland, Ronald L ^l   Haas, Michael R ^a   Hall, Jennifer R ^a   Holman, Matthew J ^d   Koch, David G ^a   Latham, David W ^d   Lopez, Eric ^b   McCauliff, Sean ^a   Miller, Neil ^b   Morehead, Robert C ^c   Quintana, Elisa V ^a   Ragozzine, Darin ^d   Sasselov, Dimitar ^d   Short, Donald R ^f   Steffen, Jason H ^m   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^j LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^m NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

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COSMOLOGY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GRAVITY FIELD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79551658020     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09760     Document Type: Article

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