The extreme physical properties of the CoRoT-7b super-Earth

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Leger A ^a   Grasset, O ^b   Fegley, B ^c   Codron, F ^d   Albarede, A F ^e   Barge, P ^f   Barnes, R ^g   Cance, P ^b   Carpy, S ^b   Catalano, F ^h   Cavarroc, C ^a   Demangeon, O ^a   Ferraz Mello, S ⁱ   Gabor, P ^a   Griessmeier J M ^o   Leibacher, J ^a,n   Libourel, G ^j   Maurin, A S ^j,k   Raymond, S N ^j,k   Rouan, D ^l   Samuel, B ^a   Schaefer, L ^c   Schneider, J ^j   Schuller, P A ^a   Selsis, F ^j,k   Sotin, C ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h University of Washington ^*  (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^j CNRS   (France)

^k OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^o LPCE CNRS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Exobiology; Extrasolar planets; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955155323     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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