An educated search for transiting habitable planets: (Research Note) Targetting M dwarfs with known transiting planets

Because the planets of a system form in a flattened disk, they are expected to share similar orbital inclinations at the end of their formation. The high-precision photometric monitoring of stars known to host a transiting planet could thus reveal the transits of one or more other planets. We invest...

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Main Authors: Seager, Sara, Demory, Brice-Olivier, Bonfils, Xavier, Deming, Drake, Triaud, Amaury H.M.J., Gillon, M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: EDP Sciences 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74054
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948