Search for circum-planetary material and orbital period variations of short-period Kepler exoplanet candidates

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Garai, Z.
Zhou, Guyin (George)
Budaj, Jan
Stellingwerf, R. F.

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Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH

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A unique short-period (P = 0.65356(1) d) Mercury-size Kepler exoplanet candidate KIC012557548b has been discovered recently by Rappaport et al. (2012). This object is a transiting disintegrating exoplanet with a circum-planetary material-comet-like tail.

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2037-12-31