Extrasolar Planets

[droege@snapmail.us]

Robert,

TN-74 at:

http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/technotes/tn0074.html

discusses this.  Michael Gutzwiller was able to measure one exoplanet with
his Mark IV.  I think if you set them up for the task one could detect
planets as Mike predicts.  We are not operating in a mode where this works
very well.

Sorry if this is a repeat of a previous post.  I am still cleaning up my
mail mess.

Tom Droege

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Subject: Extrasolar planets
Date: Monday 11 October 2004 06:16 am
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
To: TASS <tass@listserv.wwa.com>

TASS followers may find this article regarding extrasolar
planet probability and structure interesting:

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1241.html

If the TASS error bars on the magnitudes can be
cranked low enough -- it might be possible to
survey a large number of stars for planets
using occultation astronomy rather than the
spectroscopic methods that have been used to
discover most of the planets thus far.

Robert

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