TRANSITS AND OCCULTATIONS OF AN EARTH-SIZED PLANET IN AN 8.5 hr ORBIT

TRANSITS AND OCCULTATIONS OF AN EARTH-SIZED PLANET IN AN 8.5 hr ORBIT

We report the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (1.16 ± 0.19 R [subscript ⊕]) in an 8.5 hr orbit around a late G-type star (KIC 8435766, Kepler-xx). The object was identified in a search for short-period planets in the Kepler database and confirmed to be a transiting planet (as opposed to an eclips...

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Main Authors: Kotson, Michael C., Latham, David W., Buchhave, Lars A., 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/1721.1/88679
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-5569
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88679
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-5569
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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