Atmospheric scintillation noise in ground-based exoplanet photometry

Atmospheric scintillation noise in ground-based exoplanet photometry
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地基系外行星光度测量中的大气闪烁噪声

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10.1093/mnras/stz2444
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2019
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Föhring D
Föhring D
中科院分区:
物理与天体物理2区
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