Possible disintegrating short-period super-mercury orbiting KIC 12557548

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 752, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rappaport, S ^a   Levine, A ^a   Chiang, E ^b   El Mellah, I ^a,c   Jenkins, J ^d   Kalomeni, B ^a,e,f   Kite, E S ^b,g   Kotson, M ^a   Nelson, L ^h   Rousseau Nepton, L ⁱ   Tran, K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

eclipses; occultations; planetary systems; planets and satellites: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861381304     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/1     Document Type: Article

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