Search for a habitable terrestrial planet transiting the nearby red dwarf GJ 1214

High-precision eclipse spectrophotometry of transiting terrestrial exoplanets represents a promising path for the first atmospheric characterizations of habitable worlds and the search for life outside our solar system. The detection of terrestrial planets transiting nearby late-type M-dwarfs could...

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Main Authors: Gillon, M., Madhusudhan, Nikku, Deming, D., Knutson, Heather A., Lanotte, A. A., Bonfils, X., Delrez, L., Jehin, Emmanuel, Fraine, Jonathan D., Magain, P., Demory, Brice-Olivier, Seager, Sara, Zsom, Andras, Desert, J.-M., Triaud, Amaury
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: EDP Sciences 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97913
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