A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf

A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System1, most of which orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into white dwarfs. During the red giant phase, any close-orbiting planets will be engulfed by the star2, but more distant planets can survive thi...

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Main Authors: Vanderburg, Andrew, Rappaport, Saul A, Xu, Siyi, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Becker, Juliette C., Gary, Bruce, Murgas, Felipe, Blouin, Simon, Kaye, Thomas G., Palle, Enric, Melis, Carl, Morris, Brett M., Kreidberg, Laura, Gorjian, Varoujan, Morley, Caroline V., Mann, Andrew W., Parviainen, Hannu, Pearce, Logan A., Newton, Elisabeth R., Carrillo, Andreia, Zuckerman, Ben, Nelson, Lorne, Zeimann, Greg, Brown, Warren R., Tronsgaard, René, Klein, Beth, Ricker, George R, Vanderspek, Roland K, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Adams, Fred C., Benneke, Björn, Berardo, David Anthony, Buchhave, Lars A., Caldwell, Douglas A., Christiansen, Jessie L., Collins, Karen A., Colón, Knicole D., Daylan, Tansu, Doty, John, Doyle, Alexandra E., Dragomir, Diana, Dressing, Courtney, Dufour, Patrick, Fukui, Akihiko, Glidden, Ana, Guerrero, Natalia M., Guo, Xueying, Heng, Kevin, Henriksen, Andreea I., Huang, Chelsea X., Kaltenegger, Lisa, Kane, Stephen R., Lewis, John A., Lissauer, Jack J., Morales, Farisa, Narita, Norio, Pepper, Joshua, Rose, Mark E., Smith, Jeffrey C., Stassun, Keivan G., Yu, Liang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129733

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