A Super-Earth Transiting a Naked-Eye Star

A Super-Earth Transiting a Naked-Eye Star

We have detected transits of the innermost planet "e" orbiting 55 Cnc (V = 6.0), based on two weeks of nearly continuous photometric monitoring with the MOST space telescope. The transits occur with the period (0.74 days) and phase that had been predicted by Dawson & Fabrycky, and with...

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Main Authors: Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Matthews, Jaymie M. (Author), Dawson, Rebekah I. (Author), Fabrycky, Daniel C. (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author), Kallinger, Thomas (Author), Kuschnig, Rainer (Author), Sasselov, Dimitar (Author), Dragomir, Diana (Author), Guenther, David B. (Author), Moffat, Anthony F. (Author), Rowe, Jason F. (Author), Rucinski, Slavek (Author), Weiss, Werner W. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2012-06-11T15:04:51Z.
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