Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7408, 2012, Pages 449-453

  Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto ^a   Fabrycky, Daniel C ^b   Winn, Joshua N ^a   Barclay, Thomas ^c,d   Clarke, Bruce D ^d,e   Ford, Eric B ^f   Fortney, Jonathan J ^b   Geary, John C ^g   Holman, Matthew J ^g   Howard, Andrew W ^h   Jenkins, Jon M ^d,e   Koch, David ^d   Lissauer, Jack J ^d   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^h   Mullally, Fergal ^d,e   Ragozzine, Darin ^g   Seader, Shawn E ^d,e   Still, Martin ^c,d   Thompson, Susan E ^d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUPITER; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84864216391     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11301     Document Type: Article

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