Kepler-20: A sun-like star with three sub-neptune exoplanets and two earth-size candidates

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 749, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gautier, Thomas N ^a   Charbonneau, David ^b   Rowe, Jason F ^c   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^d   Isaacson, Howard ^d   Torres, Guillermo ^b   Fressin, Francois ^b   Rogers, Leslie A ^e   Désert, Jean Michel ^b   Buchhave, Lars A ^f,g   Latham, David W ^b   Quinn, Samuel N ^b   Ciardi, David R ^h   Fabrycky, Daniel C ⁱ   Ford, Eric B ^j   Gilliland, Ronald L ^k   Walkowicz, Lucianne M ^l   Bryson, Stephen T ^c   Cochran, William D ^m   Endl, Michael ^m   Fischer, Debra A ⁿ   Howell, Steve B ^c   Horch, Elliott P ^o   Barclay, Thomas ^c   Batalha, Natalie ^p   Borucki, William J ^c   Christiansen, Jessie L ^c   Geary, John C ^b   Henze, Christopher E ^c   Holman, Matthew J ^b   Ibrahim, Khadeejah ^c   Jenkins, Jon M ^c   Kinemuchi, Karen ^c   Koch, David G ^c   Lissauer, Jack J ^c   Sanderfer, Dwight T ^c   Sasselov, Dimitar D ^b   Seager, Sara ^e   Silverio, Kathryn ^d   Smith, Jeffrey C ^c   Still, Martin ^c   Stumpe, Martin C ^c   Tenenbaum, Peter ^c   Van Cleve, Jeffrey ^c   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j University of Florida   (United States)

^k PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

ⁿ YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

eclipses; planetary systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858952782     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/15     Document Type: Article

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