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      "name": "Georgina Dransfield"
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      "name": "Antoine Petit"
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      "name": "Amaury Triaud"
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      "name": "Tristan Guillot"
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    {
      "name": "François-Xavier Schmider"
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    {
      "name": "Lyu Abe"
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      "name": "Abdelkrim Agabi"
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      "name": "Khalid Barkaoui"
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      "name": "Thomas Baycroft"
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      "name": "Philippe Bendjoya"
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      "name": "Rafael Brahm"
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      "name": "Karen Collins"
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      "name": "Billy Edwards"
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      "name": "Phil Evans"
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    {
      "name": "Alix Freckelton"
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    {
      "name": "Nolan Grieves"
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    {
      "name": "Steve Howell"
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    {
      "name": "Franco Mallia"
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    {
      "name": "Djamel Mekarnia"
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    {
      "name": "Keivan Stassun"
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      "name": "Chris Stockdale"
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      "name": "Amalie Stokholm"
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    {
      "name": "Thiam-Guan Tan"
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    {
      "name": "Mathilde Timmermans"
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      "name": "Abderahmane Soubkiou"
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    {
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      "name": "Andrés Jordán"
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      "name": "Julia Seidel"
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    {
      "name": "Michal Steiner"
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    {
      "name": "Trifon Trifonov"
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    {
      "name": "Joseph Twicken"
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    {
      "name": "Joshua Winn"
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    {
      "name": "Aldo Zapparata"
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  "title": "ASTEP confirmation of a pair of long-period Jupiter-sized planets with extremely low densities transiting TOI-791",
  "title_text": "ASTEP confirmation of a pair of long-period Jupiter-sized planets with extremely low densities transiting TOI-791",
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