[PDF] Top 20 Extrasolar planet search and characterisation

... of extrasolar planets, including infrared observations of planets, trans- mission spectroscopy through planetary atmospheres, astrometry, and reflected star ...of extrasolar planets from as recently as a ... See full document

... 700 extrasolar planets by the radial-velocity method, and several thousand planet candidates by the Kepler spacecraft (Borucki et ...time, planet-search efforts are now expanding into new ... See full document

... the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, also named Osiris, recorded with a small aperture ground-based telescope in 1999 ...transiting planet [20]; with a photometric accuracy better than 10 −4 , Earth ... See full document

... mass planet with a given orbital period) make the Doppler amplitude of an M-dwarf exoplanet at least three times larger than a G-dwarf ...current planet search target lists are dominated by ... See full document

... Abstract. The ESPRI consortium will conduct an astrometric survey for extrasolar planets, using the PRIMA facility at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Our scientific goals include determining orbital ... See full document

... ongoing search for extrasolar planets has been spectacu- larly successful, with over 1500 confirmed planets discovered to date 1 , including many small objects suspected of being ... See full document

... Several authors have previously studied the roles of stellar age and environment on the measured occurrence rates of exoplanets, through both the transit and radial velocity (RV) detection methods. Gilliland et al. ... See full document

... The search for ESP (extra-solar planets) has become a very popular astronomical research activity since the first discovery of ESP in ...a planet transits, its radii ratio with the primary star can be ... See full document

... In Table 2.1, we present the most important quantities from those we calculated above. In choosing the CCD and lens combination we used to construct PASS0, we tried to balance a number of important considerations. The ... See full document

... Protoplanetary disks are gas-rich and a full exploration of their dynamics by numerical methods is expensive in terms of computing power. Such disks also show many features which are similar to those observed in debris ... See full document

... Calan-Hertfordshire Extrasolar Planet Search, an international collaboration led from Chile that aims to discover more planets around super metal-rich and Sun-like stars, and then follow these up ... See full document

... From the list of detailed studies shown above, it is clear that a larger census of transiting planets around bright stars will provide the exoplanetary community with a database that can be used to examine a wider range ... See full document

... The implementation of detrending algorithms is key to minimising the e↵ects of systematic noise sources. However, these are typically designed to remove trends that are similar (even if with di↵erent amplitudes) between ... See full document

... Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS) began taking data in 1998 January on the nearest and brightest Sun-like ...all-sky planet search coverage for inactive F, G, K, and M dwarfs out to ... See full document

... Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS) has been in operation for 15 yr, and has achieved a long-term radial-velocity precision of 3 m s −1 or better since its inception, which is enabling the detection of ... See full document

... of an exomoon large enough to be habitable would require seiz- ing control of a body at least twice as massive (relative to its host planet) as Triton compared to Neptune. It is problematic whether such a capture ... See full document

... In the search for an orbital solution, periods are initially identi- fied via Lomb–Scargle periodogram analysis (Lomb 1976; Scargle 1982). Orbital solutions are plotted in Fig. 1 and summarized in Table 2 (i and ... See full document

... As we have seen, migration is an unavoidable process in the formation of planets inside a protoplanetary gaseous disk. Many scenarios are possible, offering almost all possibil- ities, but one shouldn’t conclude that ... See full document

... 2012) to estimate the contrast ratio of each of our companions and their hosts. By also assuming we are able to observe at the optimal time (maximum projected separation), we use the known distance to the systems to ... See full document

... the planet-metallicity correlation ( if any ) remains an unresolved ...10 planet hosts in this sample ( 9 published hosts and one in preparation ) , a K – S test comparing the metallicities of the host ... See full document