A super-earth transiting a naked-eye star

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 737, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Winn, Joshua N ^a   Matthews, Jaymie M ^b   Dawson, Rebekah I ^c   Fabrycky, Daniel ^d   Holman, Matthew J ^c   Kallinger, Thomas ^b,e   Kuschnig, Rainer ^e   Sasselov, Dimitar ^c   Dragomir, Diana ^b   Guenther, David B ^f   Moffat, Anthony F J ^g   Rowe, Jason F ^h   Rucinski, Slavek ⁱ   Weiss, Werner W ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

planetary systems; planets and satellites: formation; planets and satellites: interiors; stars: individual (55 Cnc)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051775186     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/737/1/L18     Document Type: Article

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