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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2010-03-20
    Description: Of the over 400 known exoplanets, there are about 70 planets that transit their central star, a situation that permits the derivation of their basic parameters and facilitates investigations of their atmospheres. Some short-period planets, including the first terrestrial exoplanet (CoRoT-7b), have been discovered using a space mission designed to find smaller and more distant planets than can be seen from the ground. Here we report transit observations of CoRoT-9b, which orbits with a period of 95.274 days on a low eccentricity of 0.11 +/- 0.04 around a solar-like star. Its periastron distance of 0.36 astronomical units is by far the largest of all transiting planets, yielding a 'temperate' photospheric temperature estimated to be between 250 and 430 K. Unlike previously known transiting planets, the present size of CoRoT-9b should not have been affected by tidal heat dissipation processes. Indeed, the planet is found to be well described by standard evolution models with an inferred interior composition consistent with that of Jupiter and Saturn.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Deeg, H J -- Moutou, C -- Erikson, A -- Csizmadia, Sz -- Tingley, B -- Barge, P -- Bruntt, H -- Havel, M -- Aigrain, S -- Almenara, J M -- Alonso, R -- Auvergne, M -- Baglin, A -- Barbieri, M -- Benz, W -- Bonomo, A S -- Borde, P -- Bouchy, F -- Cabrera, J -- Carone, L -- Carpano, S -- Ciardi, D -- Deleuil, M -- Dvorak, R -- Ferraz-Mello, S -- Fridlund, M -- Gandolfi, D -- Gazzano, J-C -- Gillon, M -- Gondoin, P -- Guenther, E -- Guillot, T -- den Hartog, R -- Hatzes, A -- Hidas, M -- Hebrard, G -- Jorda, L -- Kabath, P -- Lammer, H -- Leger, A -- Lister, T -- Llebaria, A -- Lovis, C -- Mayor, M -- Mazeh, T -- Ollivier, M -- Patzold, M -- Pepe, F -- Pont, F -- Queloz, D -- Rabus, M -- Rauer, H -- Rouan, D -- Samuel, B -- Schneider, J -- Shporer, A -- Stecklum, B -- Street, R -- Udry, S -- Weingrill, J -- Wuchterl, G -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 18;464(7287):384-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08856.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, C. Via Lactea S/N, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. hdeeg@iac.es〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20237564" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-23
    Description: The abundance of heavy elements (metallicity) in the photospheres of stars similar to the Sun provides a 'fossil' record of the chemical composition of the initial protoplanetary disk. Metal-rich stars are much more likely to harbour gas giant planets, supporting the model that planets form by accumulation of dust and ice particles. Recent ground-based surveys suggest that this correlation is weakened for Neptunian-sized planets. However, how the relationship between size and metallicity extends into the regime of terrestrial-sized exoplanets is unknown. Here we report spectroscopic metallicities of the host stars of 226 small exoplanet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler mission, including objects that are comparable in size to the terrestrial planets in the Solar System. We find that planets with radii less than four Earth radii form around host stars with a wide range of metallicities (but on average a metallicity close to that of the Sun), whereas large planets preferentially form around stars with higher metallicities. This observation suggests that terrestrial planets may be widespread in the disk of the Galaxy, with no special requirement of enhanced metallicity for their formation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Buchhave, Lars A -- Latham, David W -- Johansen, Anders -- Bizzarro, Martin -- Torres, Guillermo -- Rowe, Jason F -- Batalha, Natalie M -- Borucki, William J -- Brugamyer, Erik -- Caldwell, Caroline -- Bryson, Stephen T -- Ciardi, David R -- Cochran, William D -- Endl, Michael -- Esquerdo, Gilbert A -- Ford, Eric B -- Geary, John C -- Gilliland, Ronald L -- Hansen, Terese -- Isaacson, Howard -- Laird, John B -- Lucas, Philip W -- Marcy, Geoffrey W -- Morse, Jon A -- Robertson, Paul -- Shporer, Avi -- Stefanik, Robert P -- Still, Martin -- Quinn, Samuel N -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jun 13;486(7403):375-7. doi: 10.1038/nature11121.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. buchhave@astro.ku.dk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22722196" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-13
    Description: Most Sun-like stars in the Galaxy reside in gravitationally bound pairs of stars (binaries). Although long anticipated, the existence of a 'circumbinary planet' orbiting such a pair of normal stars was not definitively established until the discovery of the planet transiting (that is, passing in front of) Kepler-16. Questions remained, however, about the prevalence of circumbinary planets and their range of orbital and physical properties. Here we report two additional transiting circumbinary planets: Kepler-34 (AB)b and Kepler-35 (AB)b, referred to here as Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b, respectively. Each is a low-density gas-giant planet on an orbit closely aligned with that of its parent stars. Kepler-34 b orbits two Sun-like stars every 289 days, whereas Kepler-35 b orbits a pair of smaller stars (89% and 81% of the Sun's mass) every 131 days. The planets experience large multi-periodic variations in incident stellar radiation arising from the orbital motion of the stars. The observed rate of circumbinary planets in our sample implies that more than approximately 1% of close binary stars have giant planets in nearly coplanar orbits, yielding a Galactic population of at least several million.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Welsh, William F -- Orosz, Jerome A -- Carter, Joshua A -- Fabrycky, Daniel C -- Ford, Eric B -- Lissauer, Jack J -- Prsa, Andrej -- Quinn, Samuel N -- Ragozzine, Darin -- Short, Donald R -- Torres, Guillermo -- Winn, Joshua N -- Doyle, Laurance R -- Barclay, Thomas -- Batalha, Natalie -- Bloemen, Steven -- Brugamyer, Erik -- Buchhave, Lars A -- Caldwell, Caroline -- Caldwell, Douglas A -- Christiansen, Jessie L -- Ciardi, David R -- Cochran, William D -- Endl, Michael -- Fortney, Jonathan J -- Gautier, Thomas N 3rd -- Gilliland, Ronald L -- Haas, Michael R -- Hall, Jennifer R -- Holman, Matthew J -- Howard, Andrew W -- Howell, Steve B -- Isaacson, Howard -- Jenkins, Jon M -- Klaus, Todd C -- Latham, David W -- Li, Jie -- Marcy, Geoffrey W -- Mazeh, Tsevi -- Quintana, Elisa V -- Robertson, Paul -- Shporer, Avi -- Steffen, Jason H -- Windmiller, Gur -- Koch, David G -- Borucki, William J -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jan 11;481(7382):475-9. doi: 10.1038/nature10768.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA. wfw@sciences.sdsu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22237021" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Extraterrestrial Environment/chemistry ; *Planets ; Space Flight ; Spacecraft ; Stars, Celestial
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