POSSIBLE DISINTEGRATING SHORT-PERIOD SUPER-MERCURY ORBITING KIC 12557548

POSSIBLE DISINTEGRATING SHORT-PERIOD SUPER-MERCURY ORBITING KIC 12557548

We report on the discovery of stellar occultations, observed with Kepler, which recur periodically at 15.685 hr intervals, but which vary in depth from a maximum of 1.3% to a minimum that can be less than 0.2%. The star that is apparently being occulted is KIC 12557548, a V = 16 mag K dwarf with T [...

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Main Authors: Chiang, E. (Author), El Mellah, I. (Contributor), Jenkins, Jon M. (Author), Kalomeni, B. (Contributor), Kite, E. S. (Author), Kotson, Michael C. (Contributor), Nelson, L. (Author), Rousseau-Nepton, L. (Author), Tran, K. (Contributor), Rappaport, Saul A. (Contributor), Levine, Alan M. (Contributor)
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, 2015-02-20T18:45:47Z.
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