Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars

Simulations predict that hot super-Earth sized exoplanets can have their envelopes stripped by photoevaporation, which would present itself as a lack of these exoplanets. However, this absence in the exoplanet population has escaped a firm detection. Here we demonstrate, using asteroseismology on a...

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Autores principales: Lundkvist, M. S., Kjeldsen, H., Albrecht, S., Davies, G. R., Basu, S., Huber, D., Justesen, A. B., Karoff, C., Silva Aguirre, V., Van Eylen, V., Vang, C., Arentoft, T., Barclay, T., Bedding, T. R., Campante, T. L., Chaplin, W. J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Elsworth, Y. P., Gilliland, R. L., Handberg, R., Hekker, S., Kawaler, S. D., Lund, M. N., Metcalfe, T. S., Miglio, A., Rowe, J. F., Stello, D., Tingley, B., White, T. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11201

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