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Methods of detecting exoplanets

Methods of detecting exoplanets usually rely on indirect strategies – that is, they do not directly image the planet but deduce its existence from another signal. Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected light from any of the planets…

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Radial velocitySpectral linesDoppler effectBinary mass functionCenter of mass
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InterferometerParallaxTransit photometryAuroralRadio
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Detection of extrasolar asteroids and debris disks

Debris disksInfraredEuropean Space AgencyHerschel Space ObservatoryRadiation pressure
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Detection of extrasolar asteroids and debris disks

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planets star planet method stars light around transit exoplanet mass orbit detect space also using radial velocity planet's telescope first

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a neutron star or white dwarfinstance ofplanets can completely occult a very small star0.80text
an event which would be easily detectable from Earthinstance ofplanets can completely occult a very small star0.80text
the Kepler Space Observatoryinstance ofsuch Jupiter-sized planets with an orbital period of a few days are detectable by space telescopes0.80text
the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeinstance ofin principle down to Mars mass with future space projects0.80text
the LUVOIR or the HabEx have been proposed.In 2010instance ofConcepts0.80text
a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrated that a vortex coronagraph could enable small scopes to directly image planetsinstance ofConcepts0.80text
ZIMPOL/CHEOPSinstance ofGroups0.80text
PlanetPol are currently using polarimeters to search for extrasolar planetsinstance ofGroups0.80text

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