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What Photometric Space Telescopes Can Tell Us About Extrasolar Giant Planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

S. Seager  and
Lam Hui
S. Seager
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Lam Hui
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA

Abstract

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Within the next few years three microsatellites with part-per-million photometric capability (MOST, MONS, COROT) will be launched. These space telescopes, which were designed for asteroseismology, as well as other proposed or planned space telescopes to detect Earth-like transiting planets (Kepler and Eddington), will be able to observe the reflected light curves of the close-in extrasolar giant planets (CEGPs). The CEGPs are 0.05 AU from their parent star and are potentially bright in reflected light. For a transiting planet (at any orbital distance) moons and planetary rings may be detected.

Type
Part V: Discovery and study of extrasolar planets - future
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 468 - 470
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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