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Two Earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fressin F Torres G Rowe JF Charbonneau D Rogers LA Ballard S Batalha NM Borucki WJ Bryson ST Buchhave LA Ciardi DR Désert JM Dressing CD Fabrycky DC Ford EB Gautier TN Henze CE Holman MJ Howard A Howell SB Jenkins JM Koch DG Latham DW Lissauer JJ Marcy GW Quinn SN Ragozzine D Sasselov DD Seager S Barclay T Mullally F Seader SE Still M Twicken JD Thompson SE Uddin K 《Nature》2012,482(7384):195-198
Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun-like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues. The size of an exoplanet can be determined when it periodically passes in front of (transits) its parent star, causing a decrease in starlight proportional to its radius. The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has a radius 1.42 times that of the Earth's radius (R(⊕)), and hence has 2.9 times its volume. Here we report the discovery of two planets, one Earth-sized (1.03R(⊕)) and the other smaller than the Earth (0.87R(⊕)), orbiting the star Kepler-20, which is already known to host three other, larger, transiting planets. The gravitational pull of the new planets on the parent star is too small to measure with current instrumentation. We apply a statistical method to show that the likelihood of the planetary interpretation of the transit signals is more than three orders of magnitude larger than that of the alternative hypothesis that the signals result from an eclipsing binary star. Theoretical considerations imply that these planets are rocky, with a composition of iron and silicate. The outer planet could have developed a thick water vapour atmosphere. 相似文献
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Mutations in the pleckstrin homology domain of dynamin 2 cause dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Züchner S Noureddine M Kennerson M Verhoeven K Claeys K De Jonghe P Merory J Oliveira SA Speer MC Stenger JE Walizada G Zhu D Pericak-Vance MA Nicholson G Timmerman V Vance JM 《Nature genetics》2005,37(3):289-294
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of peripheral neuropathies. Different chromosomal loci have been linked with three autosomal dominant, 'intermediate' types of CMT: DI-CMTA, DI-CMTB and DI-CMTC. We refined the locus associated with DI-CMTB on chromosome 19p12-13.2 to 4.2 Mb in three unrelated families with CMT originating from Australia, Belgium and North America. After screening candidate genes, we identified unique mutations in dynamin 2 (DNM2) in all families. DNM2 belongs to the family of large GTPases and is part of the cellular fusion-fission apparatus. In transiently transfected cell lines, mutations of DNM2 substantially diminish binding of DNM2 to membranes by altering the conformation of the beta3/beta4 loop of the pleckstrin homology domain. Additionally, in the Australian and Belgian pedigrees, which carry two different mutations affecting the same amino acid, Lys558, CMT cosegregated with neutropenia, which has not previously been associated with CMT neuropathies. 相似文献
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Bidirectional expression of CUG and CAG expansion transcripts and intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Moseley ML Zu T Ikeda Y Gao W Mosemiller AK Daughters RS Chen G Weatherspoon MR Clark HB Ebner TJ Day JW Ranum LP 《Nature genetics》2006,38(7):758-769
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Buchhave LA Latham DW Johansen A Bizzarro M Torres G Rowe JF Batalha NM Borucki WJ Brugamyer E Caldwell C Bryson ST Ciardi DR Cochran WD Endl M Esquerdo GA Ford EB Geary JC Gilliland RL Hansen T Isaacson H Laird JB Lucas PW Marcy GW Morse JA Robertson P Shporer A Stefanik RP Still M Quinn SN 《Nature》2012,486(7403):375-377
The abundance of heavy elements (metallicity) in the photospheres of stars similar to the Sun provides a 'fossil' record of the chemical composition of the initial protoplanetary disk. Metal-rich stars are much more likely to harbour gas giant planets, supporting the model that planets form by accumulation of dust and ice particles. Recent ground-based surveys suggest that this correlation is weakened for Neptunian-sized planets. However, how the relationship between size and metallicity extends into the regime of terrestrial-sized exoplanets is unknown. Here we report spectroscopic metallicities of the host stars of 226 small exoplanet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler mission, including objects that are comparable in size to the terrestrial planets in the Solar System. We find that planets with radii less than four Earth radii form around host stars with a wide range of metallicities (but on average a metallicity close to that of the Sun), whereas large planets preferentially form around stars with higher metallicities. This observation suggests that terrestrial planets may be widespread in the disk of the Galaxy, with no special requirement of enhanced metallicity for their formation. 相似文献
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R. Marcy M. A. Quermonne B. Nammathao 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1976,32(2):208-209
Summary In mice, iterative photostimulation results in habituation, detected in the palmar skin conductance response. Psychoanaleptics delay this habituation in proportion to the dose administered. 相似文献
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Nugent PE Sullivan M Cenko SB Thomas RC Kasen D Howell DA Bersier D Bloom JS Kulkarni SR Kandrashoff MT Filippenko AV Silverman JM Marcy GW Howard AW Isaacson HT Maguire K Suzuki N Tarlton JE Pan YC Bildsten L Fulton BJ Parrent JT Sand D Podsiadlowski P Bianco FB Dilday B Graham ML Lyman J James P Kasliwal MM Law NM Quimby RM Hook IM Walker ES Mazzali P Pian E Ofek EO Gal-Yam A Poznanski D 《Nature》2011,480(7377):344-347
Type Ia supernovae have been used empirically as 'standard candles' to demonstrate the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe even though fundamental details, such as the nature of their progenitor systems and how the stars explode, remain a mystery. There is consensus that a white dwarf star explodes after accreting matter in a binary system, but the secondary body could be anything from a main-sequence star to a red giant, or even another white dwarf. This uncertainty stems from the fact that no recent type Ia supernova has been discovered close enough to Earth to detect the stars before explosion. Here we report early observations of supernova SN 2011fe in the galaxy M101 at a distance from Earth of 6.4 megaparsecs. We find that the exploding star was probably a carbon-oxygen white dwarf, and from the lack of an early shock we conclude that the companion was probably a main-sequence star. Early spectroscopy shows high-velocity oxygen that slows rapidly, on a timescale of hours, and extensive mixing of newly synthesized intermediate-mass elements in the outermost layers of the supernova. A companion paper uses pre-explosion images to rule out luminous red giants and most helium stars as companions to the progenitor. 相似文献
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Spectrin mutations cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Ikeda Y Dick KA Weatherspoon MR Gincel D Armbrust KR Dalton JC Stevanin G Dürr A Zühlke C Bürk K Clark HB Brice A Rothstein JD Schut LJ Day JW Ranum LP 《Nature genetics》2006,38(2):184-190
We have discovered that beta-III spectrin (SPTBN2) mutations cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) in an 11-generation American kindred descended from President Lincoln's grandparents and two additional families. Two families have separate in-frame deletions of 39 and 15 bp, and a third family has a mutation in the actin/ARP1 binding region. Beta-III spectrin is highly expressed in Purkinje cells and has been shown to stabilize the glutamate transporter EAAT4 at the surface of the plasma membrane. We found marked differences in EAAT4 and GluRdelta2 by protein blot and cell fractionation in SCA5 autopsy tissue. Cell culture studies demonstrate that wild-type but not mutant beta-III spectrin stabilizes EAAT4 at the plasma membrane. Spectrin mutations are a previously unknown cause of ataxia and neurodegenerative disease that affect membrane proteins involved in glutamate signaling. 相似文献