A STUDY OF THE SHORTEST-PERIOD PLANETS FOUND WITH KEPLER

We present the results of a survey aimed at discovering and studying transiting planets with orbital periods shorter than one day (ultra-short-period, or USP, planets), using data from the Kepler spacecraft. We computed Fourier transforms of the photometric time series for all 200,000 target stars,...

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Main Authors: Kotson, Michael C., Mellah, Ileyk El, Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto, Winn, Joshua Nathan, Rappaport, Saul A, Levine, Alan M
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88676
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-5569
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X