Slow Rotation for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-51d
Caleb Lammers and Joshua N. Winn 2024 ApJL 977 L1 Using JWST transit observations, researchers have determined that a low-density “super-puff” exoplanet is rotating slower than expected based on…
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