A Study of the Shortest-Period Planets Found With Kepler

@article{SanchisOjeda2014ASO,
  title={A Study of the Shortest-Period Planets Found With Kepler},
  author={Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda and Saul A. Rappaport and Joshua N. Winn and Michael C. Kotson and Alan M. Levine and Ileyk El Mellah},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={787},
  pages={47}
}
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Kepler Participating Scientist Program) 
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