A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star

@article{Charbonneau2009AST,  title={A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star},  author={David Charbonneau and Zachory K. Berta and Jonathan M. Irwin and Christopher J. Burke and Philip Andrew Nutzman and Lars A. Buchhave and Christophe Lovis and Xavier Bonfils and David W. Latham and St{\'e}phane Udry and Ruth A. Murray-Clay and Matthew J. Holman and Emilio E. Falco and Joshua N. Winn and Didier Queloz and Francesco A. Pepe and Michel Mayor and Xavier Delfosse and Thierry Forveille},  journal={Nature},  year={2009},  volume={462},  pages={891-894},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4360404}}
Observations of the transiting planet GJ’1214b are reported, finding that the planetary mass and radius are consistent with a composition of primarily water enshrouded by a hydrogen–helium envelope that is only 0.05% of the mass of the planet.

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