The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons [recurso electrónico] / by David M. Kipping.
Tipo de material: TextoSeries Springer ThesesEditor: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011Descripción: XVIII, 202 p. online resourceTipo de contenido: text Tipo de medio: computer Tipo de portador: online resourceISBN: 9783642222696Tema(s): Physics | Planetology | Astrobiology | Physics | Astronomy, Observations and Techniques | Planetology | Astrobiology | Astrophysics and AstroparticlesFormatos físicos adicionales: Printed edition:: Sin títuloClasificación CDD: 520 Clasificación LoC:QB4Recursos en línea: Libro electrónicoTipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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Libro Electrónico | Biblioteca Electrónica | Colección de Libros Electrónicos | QB4 (Browse shelf(Abre debajo)) | 1 | No para préstamo | 376454-2001 |
1 Introduction -- 2 Extrasolar Moons -- 3 The Transiting Planet -- 4 Timing the Transit -- 5 Transit Distortions -- 6 Transit Timing Effects due to an Exomoon -- 7 Detectability of Habitable Exomoons with Kepler-Class Photometry -- 8 Conclusions & Future Work -- A Notations & Acronyms.
Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of an "exomoon" is notably absent. In this thesis, David Kipping shows how transiting planets may be used to infer the presence of exomoons through deviations in the time and duration of the planetary eclipses. A detailed account of the transit model, potential distortions, and timing techniques is covered before the analytic forms for the timing variations are derived. It is shown that habitable-zone exomoons above 0.2 Earth-masses are detectable with the Kepler space telescope using these new timing techniques.
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