ASTRON C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Cooler, Tangled, Stellar Atmosphere
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Most of the stars of exoplanets are visible. Earth - size planets found using doppler wobble to the naked eye . Most exoplanets are large c like jupiter or bigger) . Small orbits c hot jupiters ) and eccentric orbits of others . doesn"t give you the radius of the. Star and might not be sensitive to the least massive exoplanets so . This c radius ) plus doppler wobble . If the orbital plane is a long your line of sight , then once per orbit the planet will star pass between the. If you see a periodic dimming happening the dips exoplanet ! Star spot be they tend to same amount of time. Intervals drift around and they don"t last telescope and it will dim a little bit of the. Star "s light . the btwn can only happen if the orbital plane is essentially along your line of sight, very long) . esp if planet is far.
