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Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech
Mondays, Robinson 106
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| 28 January 2008 |
Josh Winn (MIT)
"The Transits of Exoplanets" The transit of a planet across the disk of its parent star is a rare and enlightening event. For a generic exoplanet, all that is known are the orbital characteristics and the minimum mass. For a transiting planet we can also learn the actual mass, radius, temperature, and much more. I will discuss the present and future of transit observations, concentrating on our group's recent efforts to measure planetary radii, spin-orbit alignment, and reflected light from exoplanets. |
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