An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7403, 2012, Pages 375-377

  Buchhave, Lars A ^a,b   Latham, David W ^c   Johansen, Anders ^d   Bizzarro, Martin ^b   Torres, Guillermo ^c   Rowe, Jason F ^e   Batalha, Natalie M ^f   Borucki, William J ^e   Brugamyer, Erik ^g   Caldwell, Caroline ^g   Bryson, Stephen T ^e   Ciardi, David R ^h   Cochran, William D ^g   Endl, Michael ^g   Esquerdo, Gilbert A ^c   Ford, Eric B ⁱ   Geary, John C ^c   Gilliland, Ronald L ^j   Hansen, Terese ^a   Isaacson, Howard ^k   Laird, John B ^l   Lucas, Philip W ^m   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^k   Morse, Jon A ⁿ   Robertson, Paul ^g   Shporer, Avi ^o,p   Stefanik, Robert P ^c   Still, Martin ^e   Quinn, Samuel N ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^j STScI   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^o LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; METALLOID;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; DUST; EARTH; FOSSIL RECORD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HEAVY MINERAL; NEPTUNE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOS; DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84862569033     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11121     Document Type: Article

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