We report the discovery of two transiting planets around the bright (
Thousands of exoplanet detections have been made over the last 25 years using Doppler observations, transit photometry, direct imaging, and astrometry. Each of these methods is sensitive to different ranges of orbital separations and planetary radii (or masses). This makes it difficult to fully characterize exoplanet architectures and to place our solar system in context with the wealth of discoveries that have been made. Here, we use the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph to reveal planets in previously undetectable regions of the mass–period parameter space for the star
- Award ID(s):
- 2009528
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10429331
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Astronomical Journal
- Volume:
- 166
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0004-6256
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- Medium: X Size: Article No. 46
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- ["Article No. 46"]
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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