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Testing Blend Scenarios for Extrasolar Transiting Planet Candidates. I. OGLE‐TR‐33: A False Positive

Testing Blend Scenarios for Extrasolar Transiting Planet Candidates. I. OGLE‐TR‐33: A False Positive

We report high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up observations of the faint transiting planet candidate OGLE-TR-33 (V = 14.7), located in the direction of the Galactic center. Small changes in the radial velocity of the star were detected that initially suggested the presence of a large planet or brown dwarf in orbit. However, …