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astro-ph2003
The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets. XII. Orbital solutions for 16 extra-solar planets discovered with CORALIE
M. Mayor, S. Udry, D. Naef +4
This paper summarizes the information gathered for 16 still unpublished exoplanet candidates discovered with the CORALIE echelle spectrograph mounted on the Euler Swiss telescope a…
astro-ph2001
Confirming the Metal-Rich Nature of Stars with Giant Planets
Nuno C. Santos, Garik Israelian, Michel Mayor
With the goal of confirming the metallicity ``excess'' observed in stars with planetary mass companions, we have conducted a high-precision spectroscopic study of a ``comparison''…
astro-ph1999
Wolf-Rayet stars and radioisotope production
G. Meynet, M. Arnould
Radioisotopes are natural clocks which can be used to estimate the age of the solar system. They also influence the shape of supernova light curves. In addition, the diffuse emissi…