Extrasolar Planets in the Classroom

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2011-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5690v2

Phys. Educ.46:403-406, 2011

Physics

Popular Physics

7 pages, 2 figures, published in Physics Education

Scientific paper

10.1088/0031-9120/46/4/004

The field of extrasolar planets is still, in comparison with other astrophysical topics, in its infancy. There have been about 300 or so extrasolar planets detected and their detection has been accomplished by various different techniques. Here we present a simple laboratory experiment to show how planets are detected using the transit technique. Following the simple analysis procedure describe we are able to determine the planetary radius to be 1.27 +/- 0.20 R_{J} which, within errors agrees with the establish value of 1.32 +/- 0.25 R_{J}.

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