Penny D. Sackett, Michael D. Albrow, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, John A. R. Caldwell, C. Coutures, M. Dominik, John Greenhill, K. Hill, Keith Horne, Uffe Grae Jorgensen, Stephen R. Kane, Daniel Kubas, Ralph Martin, J. W. Menzies, K. R. Pollard, K. C. Sahu, Joachim Wambsganß, R. Watson, A. Williams
- Due to their extremely small luminosity compared to the stars they orbit, planets outside our own Solar System are extraordinarily difficult to detect directly in optical light. Careful photometric monitoring of distant stars, however, can reveal the presence of exoplanets via the microlensing or eclipsing effects they induce. The international PLANET collaboration is performing such monitoring using a cadre of semi-dedicated telescopes around the world. Their results constrain the number of gas giants orbiting 1-7 AU from the most typical stars in the Galaxy. Upgrades in the program are opening regions of ''exoplanet discovery space'' - toward smaller masses and larger orbital radii - that are inaccessible to the Doppler velocity technique.
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Penny D. Sackett, Michael D. Albrow, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, John A. R. Caldwell, C. Coutures, M. Dominik, John Greenhill, K. Hill, Keith Horne, Uffe Grae Jorgensen, Stephen R. Kane, Daniel Kubas, Ralph Martin, J. W. Menzies, K. R. Pollard, K. C. Sahu, Joachim Wambsganß, R. Watson, A. Williams |
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URL: | http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0211098 |
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Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2003 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 24.03.2017 |
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Quelle: | Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars, IAU Symposium 213 / ed. by R. Norris ; C. Oliver ; F. Stootman. - San Francisco, Calif.: Astronomical Soc. of the Pacific, 2003. - (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; TBD) |
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Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
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Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik |
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