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Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star

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  • Borucki, William J., Koch, David G., Batalha, Natalie, Bryson, Stephen T., Rowe, Jason, Fressin, Francois, Torres, Guillermo, Caldwell, Douglas A., Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Cochran, William D., DeVore, Edna, Gautier, Thomas N., Geary, John C., Gilliland, Ronald, Gould, Alan, Howell, Steve B., Jenkins, Jon M., Latham, David W., Lissauer, Jack J., Marcy, Geoffrey W., Sasselov, Dimitar, Boss, Alan, Charbonneau, David, Ciardi, David, Kaltenegger, Lisa et al. 2012. "Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/120.

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  • A search of the time-series photometry from NASA's Kepler spacecraft reveals a transiting planet candidate orbiting the 11th magnitude G5 dwarf KIC 10593626 with a period of 290 days. The characteristics of the host star are well constrained by high-resolution spectroscopy combined with an asteroseismic analysis of the Kepler photometry, leading to an estimated mass and radius of 0.970 ± 0.060 M ? and 0.979 ± 0.020 R ?. The depth of 492 ±

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  • 2012

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