Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b

Nature

Volumn 481, Issue 7382, 2012, Pages 475-479

  Welsh, William F ^a   Orosz, Jerome A ^a   Carter, Joshua A ^b   Fabrycky, Daniel C ^c   Ford, Eric B ^d   Lissauer, Jack J ^e   Prša, Andrej ^f   Quinn, Samuel N ^b,g   Ragozzine, Darin ^b   Short, Donald R ^a   Torres, Guillermo ^b   Winn, Joshua N ^h   Doyle, Laurance R ⁱ   Barclay, Thomas ^e,j   Batalha, Natalie ^e,k   Bloemen, Steven ^l   Brugamyer, Erik ^m   Buchhave, Lars A ^n,o   Caldwell, Caroline ^m   Caldwell, Douglas A ⁱ   Christiansen, Jessie L ^e,i   Ciardi, David R ^p   Cochran, William D ^m   Endl, Michael ^m   Fortney, Jonathan J ^q   Gautier Iii, Thomas N ^r   Gilliland, Ronald L ^s   Haas, Michael R ^e   Hall, Jennifer R ^e   Holman, Matthew J ^b   Howard, Andrew W ^t   Howell, Steve B ^e   Isaacson, Howard ^t   Jenkins, Jon M ^e,i   Klaus, Todd C ^e   Latham, David W ^b   Li, Jie ^e,i   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^t   Mazeh, Tsevi ^u   Quintana, Elisa V ^e,i   Robertson, Paul ^m   Shporer, Avi ^v,w   Steffen, Jason H ^x   Windmiller, Gur ^a   Koch, David G ^e   Borucki, William J ^e   more..

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^m The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^p CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^s STScI   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^u TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^w UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^x NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PLANET; RADIATION BALANCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; GRAVITY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANETS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; STARS, CELESTIAL;

EID: 84862777461     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10768     Document Type: Article

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