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Orbital Eccentricity

Orbital Eccentricity is a dimensionless scalar parameter in conic section orbits that quantifies the deviation of an orbit from a perfect circle, specifically defined as the ratio of the distance between the foci of the conic to its major axis length.

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Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages

James D Hays, John Imbrie, N. J. Shackleton · Science · 1976 · 3.8K citations

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Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets

R. Paul Butler, Jason T. Wright, Geoffrey W. Marcy et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 937 citations · Full text

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Eccentric orbit generalization and simultaneous solution of binary star light and velocity curves

R. E. Wilson · The Astrophysical Journal · 1979 · 908 citations

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EXOFAST: A Fast Exoplanetary Fitting Suite in IDL

Jason D. Eastman, B. Scott Gaudi, Eric Agol · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2013 · 738 citations · Full text

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Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. V. Extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Stanislav Babak, Jonathan Gair, Alberto Sesana et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2017 · 700 citations · Full text

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    David W. Latham

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

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    D. Queloz

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    16 publications · 1.2K citations

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    R. Paul Butler

    Carnegie Institution for Science, United States

    14 publications · 3.3K citations

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    Geoffrey W. Marcy

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    14 publications · 3.5K citations

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  5. SU
    S. Udry

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    13 publications · 915 citations

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

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    Pasadena, United States

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    Berkeley, United States

    31 h-index

    82 publications

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  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    30 h-index

    245 publications

    24K citations

  5. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

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    60 publications

    5.9K citations

  6. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

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    49 publications

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  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    26 h-index

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    Cambridge, United States

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    AJ · 87 publications · 4K citations

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  5. Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

    PRD · 36 publications · 2.5K citations

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