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Nature. 2021 Oct;598(7880):272-275. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03869-6. Epub 2021 Oct 13.

A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star.

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J W Blackman, J P Beaulieu, D P Bennett, C Danielski, C Alard, A A Cole, A Vandorou, C Ranc, S K Terry, A Bhattacharya, I Bond, E Bachelet, D Veras, N Koshimoto, V Batista, J B Marquette

Affiliations

  1. School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. [email protected].
  2. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 6 et CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France. [email protected].
  3. School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
  4. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 6 et CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France.
  5. Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
  6. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  7. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain.
  8. UCL Centre for Space Exochemistry Data, Didcot, UK.
  9. Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  10. Institute for Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
  11. Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, CA, USA.
  12. Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
  13. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
  14. Centre for Space Domain Awareness, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
  15. Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  16. Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, France.

PMID: 34646001 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03869-6

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