51 Eri is well known for hosting a directly imaged giant planet and for its membership to the
We analyzed 20 s cadence Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite time-series photometry of the exoplanet host star HR 8799 collected in Sector 56. The amplitude spectrum shows Gamma Doradus (
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10389795
- Journal Name:
- Research Notes of the AAS
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
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- Article No. 2
- ISSN:
- 2515-5172
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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