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Erratum to: “Exoplanet discoveries with the CoRoT space observatory”
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Exoplanet discoveries with the CoRoT space observatory
The CoRoT space observatory is a project which is led by the French space agency CNES and leading space research institutes in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Germany and Spain and also the European Space Agency ESA...
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A transiting giant planet with a temperature between 250 K and 430 K
About 70 of the more than 400 known extrasolar planets transit their central star, making it possible to observe their atmospheres and determine various key parameters. The transiting extra-solar planets so fa...
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An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b
'Hot Jupiter' extrasolar planets are thought to have formed at some distance from their host stars and to have migrated inwards at a later date. These planets provide new perspectives on the evolution of plane...
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An extended upper atmosphere around the extrasolar planet HD209458b
The planet in the system HD209458 is the first one for which repeated transits across the stellar disk have been observed1,2. Together with radial velocity measurements3, this has led to a determination of the pl...
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Evidence for planet engulfment by the star HD82943
Current models1,2 of the evolution of the known extrasolar planetary systems need to incorporate orbital migration and/or gravitational interactions among giant planets to explain the presence of large bodies clo...
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Local Stars as Tracers of Galactic Evolution
We describe the overall properties of a new catalogue of metallicities, ages, and galactic orbits for a large, complete sample of F and G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. Based on a magnitude-limited sample ...
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Hr 7308, a short period Cepheid with variable amplitude
HR 7308 is a F6 Ib-II star of 6th magnitude. Semi-regular photometric variations were detected by Breger (1969), Percy et al. (1979) find that this star is a new small-amplitude Cepheid, and Burki and Mayor (1980...