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The Universe Tonight, May 7, 2011
Spin-Orbit Misalignment in Planetary Systems and Magnetic Star -- Disk Interaction IAU Astrophysics of Planetary Systems, Torino, Italy, Oct.14, 2010 Dong.
A Search for Habitable Planets 1 NASA’s first mission to detect Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of sun-like stars. Launched March 6,
Spectroscopic Transits. The Rossiter-McClaughlin Effect 1 1 0 +v –v 2 3 4 2 3 4 The R-M effect occurs in eclipsing systems when the companion crosses.
Photometry …Getting the most from your photon. Very Brief History: Hipparcos in 130 B.C. created catalog of stars and the magnitude scale used to this.
Transit Searches: Results I.Results from individual transit searche programs II. Interesting cases III. Spectroscopic Transits IV. In-transit spectroscopy.
Extrasolar Planets More that 500 extrasolar planets have been discovered In 46 planetary systems through radial velocity surveys, transit observations,
Lecture 11: The Discovery of the World of Exoplanets What are exoplanets & where are they? Indirect methods for planet detection.
RR Lyraes RR Lyraes are variable stars, which means their apparent brightness as seen from Earth varies. Their intrinsic brightness is around 0.75 and.
PlanetaryCharacterization Giovanna Tinetti University College London.
Lecture Outline Chapter 10: Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.
