The hot Jupiter WASP-33b targeted by HARPS-N. The study: “The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXXI. The WASP-33 system revisited with HARPS-N” of F. Borsa (INAF – AO of Brera) recently appeared on A&A
Hot Jupiters are gaseous giant planets that orbit very close to their stars (within a typical distance of less than 0.1 Astronomical Units, AU, where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and Sun, about 150 million of km). These planets are of great interest for astronomers both because of the effects due to the intense incident stellar radiation,
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