Transit surveys for earths in the habitable zones of white dwarfs

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 731, Issue 2 PART II, 2011, Pages

  Agol, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

astrobiology; binaries: eclipsing; eclipses; planetary systems; planets and satellites: detection; white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955571607     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/731/2/L31     Document Type: Article

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