Exoplanets that transit nearby M dwarfs allow us to measure the sizes, masses, and atmospheric properties of distant worlds. Between 2008 and 2013, we searched for such planets with the MEarth Project, a photometric survey of the closest and smallest main-sequence stars. This thesis uses the first planet discovered with MEarth, the warm 2.7 Earth radius exoplanet GJ1214b, to explore the possibilities that planets transiting M dwarfs provide. / Astronomy
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/11158262 |
Date | 09 October 2013 |
Creators | Berta, Zachory Kaczmarczyk |
Contributors | Charbonneau, David |
Publisher | Harvard University |
Source Sets | Harvard University |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
Rights | open |
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