How do you find an exoplanet?
An authoritative primer on the four key techniques that today's planet hunters use to detect the feeble signals of planets orbiting distant stars
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
[2016]
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index
- Introduction. My brief history
- The human activity of watching the sky
- Asking why the planets move as they do
- Exoplanets and completing the Copernican revolution
- Stellar wobbles. At the telescope
- For every action
- Eccentric orbits
- Measuring precise radial velocities
- Stellar jitter
- Design considerations for a Doppler survey
- Concluding remarks
- Seeing the shadows of planets. Measuring and reading transit signals
- The importance of a/R*
- Transit timing variations
- Measuring the brightness of a star
- Radial velocities first, transits second
- Transit first, radial velocities second
- From close in to further out
- Planets bending space-time. The geometry of microlensing
- The microlensing light curve
- The microlensing signal of a planet
- Microlensing surveys
- Directly imaging planets. The problem of angular resolution
- The problem of contrast
- The problem of chance alignment
- Measuring the properties of an imaged planet
- The future of planet hunting. Placing the solar system in context
- Learning how planets form
- Finding life outside the solar system
- Giant planets as the tip of the iceberg
- The future of the Doppler method : moving to dedicated instrumentation
- The future of transit surveys
- The future of microlensing
- The future of direct imaging
- Concluding remarks