REDUCED ACTIVITY AND LARGE PARTICLES FROM THE DISINTEGRATING PLANET CANDIDATE KIC 12557548b

The intriguing exoplanet candidate KIC 12557548b is believed to have a comet-like tail of dusty debris trailing a small rocky planet. The tail of debris scatters up to 1.3% of the stellar light in the Kepler observatory's bandpass (0.42-0.9 mu m). Observing the tail's transit depth at mult...

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Main Authors: Schlawin, E., Herter, T., Zhao, M., Teske, J. K., Chen, H.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
Language:en
Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621392
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621392