The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2015-07-01 v2
Abstract
What strange new worlds will our next-generation telescopes find?
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.04017,
title = {The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt},
author = {Kevin Heng and Joshua Winn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04017},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Published in American Scientist: Volume 103, Number 3, Pages 196 to 203 (http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2015/3/the-next-great-exoplanet-hunt). Error concerning liquid helium corrected
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