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astro-ph2008★ 9 cited
Towards A Census of Earth-mass Exo-planets with Gravitational Microlensing
J. P. Beaulieu, E. Kerins, S. Mao +26
Thirteen exo-planets have been discovered using the gravitational microlensing technique (out of which 7 have been published). These planets already demonstrate that super-Earths (…
astro-ph2008★ 6 cited
Inferring statistics of planet populations by means of automated microlensing searches
M. Dominik, U. G. Jorgensen, K. Horne +17
(abridged) The study of other worlds is key to understanding our own, and not only provides clues to the origin of our civilization, but also looks into its future. Rather than in…
astro-ph2002
Recent Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) Prototype
Stephen R. Kane, Keith Horne, Rachel A. Street +4
WASP0 is a prototype for what is intended to become a collection of WASPs whose primary aim is to detect transiting extra-solar planets across the face of their parent star. The WA…