The detection and characterization of a nontransiting planet by transit timing variations

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6085, 2012, Pages 1133-1136

  Nesvorný, David ^a   Kipping, David M ^b   Buchhave, Lars A ^c,d   Bakos, Gáspár Á ^e   Hartman, Joel ^e   Schmitt, Allan R ^f  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Citizen Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE MISSION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BAYES THEOREM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOON; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 84861683536     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1221141     Document Type: Article

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