Observed Properties of Exoplanets: Masses, Orbits, and Metallicities
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1Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington DC 20015-1305, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA 4UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 5Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping 1710, Australia 6Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
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