Exoplanet, the Glossary
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.[1]
Table of Contents
247 relations: Absorption spectroscopy, Accretion (astrophysics), Albedo, Aleksander Wolszczan, Andrew Lyne, Apparent magnitude, Arecibo Observatory, Astrobiology, Astronomical transit, Astronomical unit, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical X-ray source, Atacama Desert, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric pressure, Aurora, Axial tilt, Barnard's Star, Binary star, Biomarker, Brown dwarf, California Institute of Technology, Cerro Paranal, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Chile, Chthonian planet, Circumbinary planet, Comet, Confidence interval, Coronagraph, CoRoT, Cosmic microwave background, Coulomb barrier, Dale Frail, Definition of planet, Desert planet, Detecting Earth from distant star-based systems, Deuterium, Didier Queloz, Donald C. Backer, Doppler effect, Doppler spectroscopy, Earth, Earth analog, Earth's magnetic field, East India Company, Echelle grating, Electron degeneracy pressure, ESO 3.6 m Telescope, ESPRESSO, ... Expand index (197 more) »
- Exoplanetology
- Exoplanets
- Types of planet
Absorption spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy is spectroscopy that involves techniques that measure the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.
See Exoplanet and Absorption spectroscopy
Accretion (astrophysics)
In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, into an accretion disk.
See Exoplanet and Accretion (astrophysics)
Albedo
Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.
Aleksander Wolszczan
Aleksander Wolszczan (born 29 April 1946) is a Polish astronomer.
See Exoplanet and Aleksander Wolszczan
Andrew Lyne
Andrew Geoffrey Lyne (born 13 July 1942) is a British physicist.
Apparent magnitude
Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object.
See Exoplanet and Apparent magnitude
Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and formerly known as the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory, is an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Exoplanet and Arecibo Observatory are search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Astrobiology
Astrobiology is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events.
See Exoplanet and Astrobiology
Astronomical transit
In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer.
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering theoretical, observational, and instrumental astronomy and astrophysics.
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Astrophysical X-ray source
Astrophysical X-ray sources are astronomical objects with physical properties which result in the emission of X-rays.
See Exoplanet and Astrophysical X-ray source
Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.
See Exoplanet and Atacama Desert
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.
See Exoplanet and Atmosphere of Earth
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
See Exoplanet and Atmospheric pressure
Aurora
An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
Axial tilt
In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane.
Barnard's Star
Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
See Exoplanet and Barnard's Star
Binary star
A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.
Biomarker
In biomedical contexts, a biomarker, or biological marker, is a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition.
Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Exoplanet and Brown dwarf are types of planet.
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.
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Cerro Paranal
Cerro Paranal is a mountain in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and is the home of the Paranal Observatory.
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999.
See Exoplanet and Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Chthonian planet
Chthonian planets (sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape.
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Circumbinary planet
A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one. Exoplanet and circumbinary planet are types of planet.
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Comet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. Exoplanet and comet are Concepts in astronomy.
Confidence interval
Informally, in frequentist statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is an interval which is expected to typically contain the parameter being estimated.
See Exoplanet and Confidence interval
Coronagraph
A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star or other bright object so that nearby objects – which otherwise would be hidden in the object's bright glare – can be resolved.
CoRoT
CoRoT (French: Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013.
Cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.
See Exoplanet and Cosmic microwave background
Coulomb barrier
The Coulomb barrier, named after Coulomb's law, which is in turn named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is the energy barrier due to electrostatic interaction that two nuclei need to overcome so they can get close enough to undergo a nuclear reaction.
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Dale Frail
Dale A. Frail is a Canadian astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico.
Definition of planet
The definition of the term planet has changed several times since the word was coined by the ancient Greeks.
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Desert planet
A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar to Earth's deserts.
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Detecting Earth from distant star-based systems
There are several methods currently used by astronomers to detect distant exoplanets from Earth. Exoplanet and Detecting Earth from distant star-based systems are Exoplanetology.
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Deuterium
Deuterium (hydrogen-2, symbol H or D, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other is protium, or hydrogen-1).
Didier Queloz
Didier Patrick Queloz (born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer.
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Donald C. Backer
Donald Charles Backer (November 9, 1943 – July 25, 2010) was an American astrophysicist who primarily worked in radio astronomy.
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Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
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Doppler spectroscopy
Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
See Exoplanet and Doppler spectroscopy
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Earth analog
An Earth analog, also called an Earth analogue, Earth twin, or second Earth, is a planet or moon with environmental conditions similar to those found on Earth. Exoplanet and Earth analog are types of planet.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Echelle grating
An echelle grating (from French échelle, meaning "ladder") is a type of diffraction grating characterised by a relatively low groove density, but a groove shape which is optimized for use at high incidence angles and therefore in high diffraction orders.
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Electron degeneracy pressure
In astrophysics and condensed matter physics, electron degeneracy pressure is a quantum mechanical effect critical to understanding the stability of white dwarf stars and metal solids.
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ESO 3.6 m Telescope
The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is an optical reflecting telescope run by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile since 1977, with a clear aperture of about and area.
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ESPRESSO
ESPRESSO (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet- and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) is a third-generation, fiber fed, cross-dispersed, echelle spectrograph mounted on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Europa (moon)
Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter.
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Exoplanet Data Explorer
The Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database is a database listing extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.
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Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters
This page describes exoplanet orbital and physical parameters. Exoplanet and exoplanet orbital and physical parameters are Exoplanetology.
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An extragalactic planet, also known as an extragalactic exoplanet or an extroplanet, is a star-bound planet or rogue planet located outside of the Milky Way Galaxy. Exoplanet and extragalactic planet are Exoplanetology and types of planet.
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The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (also known as Encyclopaedia of exoplanetary systems and Catalogue of Exoplanets) is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet.
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Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s.
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The study of extraterrestrial atmospheres is an active field of research, both as an aspect of astronomy and to gain insight into Earth's atmosphere.
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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth. Exoplanet and Extraterrestrial life are search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory under construction.
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F-type main-sequence star
An F-type main-sequence star (F V) is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing star of spectral type F and luminosity class V. These stars have from 1.0 to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 6,000 and 7,600 K.
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Fomalhaut b
Fomalhaut b, formally named Dagon, is a former candidate planet observed near the A-type main-sequence star Fomalhaut, approximately 25 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus.
Forest Ray Moulton
Forest Ray Moulton (April 29, 1872 – December 7, 1952) was an American astronomer.
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Galilean moons
The Galilean moons, or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
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Gamma Cephei
Gamma Cephei (γ Cephei, abbreviated Gamma Cep, γ Cep) is a binary star system approximately 45 light-years away in the northern constellation of Cepheus.
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Gas giant
A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Exoplanet and gas giant are types of planet.
Gauss (unit)
The gauss (symbol:, sometimes Gs), is a unit of measurement of magnetic induction, also known as magnetic flux density.
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Gemini Planet Imager
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that was built for the Gemini South Telescope in Chile.
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General Scholium
The General Scholium (Scholium Generale) is an essay written by Isaac Newton, appended to his work of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia.
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Geometric albedo
In astronomy, the geometric albedo of a celestial body is the ratio of its actual brightness as seen from the light source (i.e. at zero phase angle) to that of an idealized flat, fully reflecting, diffusively scattering (Lambertian) disk with the same cross-section.
See Exoplanet and Geometric albedo
Geophysical Research Letters
Geophysical Research Letters is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal of geoscience published by the American Geophysical Union that was established in 1974.
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
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Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
Gliese 436 b
Gliese 436 b (sometimes called GJ 436 b, formally named Awohali) is a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 436.
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Gliese 504 b
Gliese 504 b (often shortened to pink planet or 59 Virginis b) is a Jovian planet or brown dwarf located in the system of the solar analog 59 Virginis (GJ 504),In spite of names of some exoplanets, derived from theirs host stars Flamsteed designations (for example, 51 Pegasi b, 61 Virginis b, 70 Virginis b etc.), the discoverers of this exoplanet did not use a similar name (i.e.
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Gravitational capture
Gravitational capture occurs when one object enters a stable orbit around another (typically referring to natural orbits rather than orbit insertion of a spacecraft with an orbital maneuvers).
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Gravitational microlensing
Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon caused by the gravitational lens effect.
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Gravity
In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
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Habitability of natural satellites
The habitability of natural satellites is the potential of moons to provide habitats for life, though it is not an indicator that they harbor it.
See Exoplanet and Habitability of natural satellites
Habitable zone
In astronomy and astrobiology, the habitable zone (HZ), or more precisely the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure. Exoplanet and habitable zone are search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Habitable zone for complex life
A Habitable Zone for Complex Life (HZCL) is a range of distances from a star suitable for complex aerobic life.
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Hale Telescope
The Hale Telescope is a, f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale.
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Haute-Provence Observatory
The Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP, Observatoire de Haute-Provence) is an astronomical observatory in the southeast of France, about 90 km east of Avignon and 100 km north of Marseille.
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HD 189733
HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).
HD 189733 b
HD 189733 b is an exoplanet in the constellation of Vulpecula approximately away from the Solar System.
HD 209458 b
HD 209458 b is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some from the Solar System.
Heliocentrism
Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.
See Exoplanet and Heliocentrism
Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Helium planet
A helium planet is a planet with a helium-dominated atmosphere.
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High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher
The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-precision echelle planet-finding spectrograph installed in 2002 on the ESO's 3.6m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
See Exoplanet and High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher
Hot Jupiter
Hot Jupiters (sometimes called hot Saturns) are a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but that have very short orbital periods (. Exoplanet and hot Jupiter are types of planet.
HR 2562 b
HR 2562 b is a brown dwarf or gas giant exoplanet.
HR 8799
HR 8799 is a roughly 30 million-year-old main-sequence star located away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Ice crystal
Ice crystals are solid ice in symmetrical shapes including hexagonal columns, hexagonal plates, and dendritic crystals.
Infrared
Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.
International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
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James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy.
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Joule heating
Joule heating (also known as resistive, resistance, or Ohmic heating) is the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat.
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Journal for the History of Astronomy
Journal for the History of Astronomy (JHA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the History of Astronomy from earliest times to the present, and in history in the service of astronomy.
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Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1934.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Kappa Andromedae b
Kappa Andromedae b is a directly imaged substellar object and likely superjovian-mass planet orbiting Kappa Andromedae, a young B9IV star in the Andromeda constellation, about 170 light-years away.
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Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.
See Exoplanet and Kepler space telescope
Kepler-1520b
Kepler-1520b (initially published as KIC 12557548 b), is a confirmed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star Kepler-1520.
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Kepler-16
Kepler-16 is an eclipsing binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus that was targeted by the Kepler spacecraft. Both stars are smaller than the Sun; the primary, Kepler-16A, is a K-type main-sequence star and the secondary, Kepler-16B, is an M-type red dwarf. They are separated by 0.22 AU, and complete an orbit around a common center of mass every 41 days.
Kepler-1625b
Kepler-1625b is a super-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1625 about away in the constellation of Cygnus.
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Kepler-186f
Kepler-186f (also known by its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-571.05) is an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-186, the outermost of five such planets discovered around the star by NASA's ''Kepler'' spacecraft.
Kepler-19b
Kepler-19b is a planet orbiting around the star Kepler-19.
Kepler-19c
Kepler-19c is an extra-solar planet orbiting the star Kepler-19 approximately 717 light years from Earth.
Kepler-223
Kepler-223 (KOI-730, KIC 10227020) is a G5V star with an extrasolar planetary system discovered by the Kepler mission.
Kepler-442b
Kepler-442b (also known by its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-4742.01) is a confirmed near-Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-442, about from Earth in the constellation of Lyra.
Kepler-452b
Kepler-452b (sometimes quoted to be an Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin based on its characteristics; also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-7016.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the system discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
Kepler-51
Kepler-51 is a Sun-like star that is about 500 million years old.
Kepler-62f
Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered around the star by NASA's ''Kepler'' spacecraft.
La Silla Observatory
La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
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LHS 475 b
LHS 475 b is a terrestrial planet orbiting the star LHS 475 which is about 40.7 light years away, in the constellation of Octans.
Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not.
Light-year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi. Exoplanet and light-year are Concepts in astronomy.
List of multiplanetary systems
From the total of stars known to have exoplanets (as of), there are a total of known multiplanetary systems, or stars with at least two confirmed planets, beyond the Solar System.
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List of nearest exoplanets
There are known exoplanets, or planets outside the Solar System that orbit a star, as of; only a small fraction of these are located in the vicinity of the Solar System.
See Exoplanet and List of nearest exoplanets
List of proper names of exoplanets
Proper names for planets outside of the Solar System – known as exoplanets – are chosen by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) through public naming contests known as NameExoWorlds.
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Lists of planets
These are lists of planets. Exoplanet and lists of planets are exoplanets and search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Low-Frequency Array
The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a large radio telescope, with an antenna network located mainly in the Netherlands, and spreading across 7 other European countries as of 2019.
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Madras Observatory
The Madras Observatory was an astronomical observatory which had its origins in a private observatory set up by William Petrie in 1786 and later moved and managed by the British East India Company from 1792 in Madras (now known as Chennai).
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Magnetic field
A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials.
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Magnetosphere
In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. Exoplanet and magnetosphere are Concepts in astronomy.
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Main sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a classification of stars which appear on plots of stellar color versus brightness as a continuous and distinctive band. Exoplanet and main sequence are Concepts in astronomy.
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Matthew Bailes
Matthew Bailes is an astrophysicist and Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.
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Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen in which it behaves like an electrical conductor.
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In astronomy, metallicity is the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium. Exoplanet and metallicity are Concepts in astronomy.
Methods of detecting exoplanets
Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. Exoplanet and Methods of detecting exoplanets are Exoplanetology.
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Michel Mayor
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy.
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Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) is a collaborative project between researchers in New Zealand and Japan, led by Professor Yasushi Muraki of Nagoya University.
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Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
Minimum mass
In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes. Exoplanet and minimum mass are Exoplanetology.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields.
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
Mount Wilson Observatory
The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA Exoplanet Archive
The NASA Exoplanet Archive is an online astronomical exoplanet catalog and data service that collects and serves public data that support the search for and characterization of extra-solar planets (exoplanets) and their host stars.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Nature Communications
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Ocean world
An ocean world, ocean planet or water world is a type of planet that contains a substantial amount of water in the form of oceans, as part of its hydrosphere, either beneath the surface, as subsurface oceans, or on the surface, potentially submerging all dry land. Exoplanet and ocean world are types of planet.
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (known sometimes as Hoth by NASA) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star from Earth near the center of the Milky Way, making it one of the most distant planets known.
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Optical spectrometer
An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials.
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Optothermal stability
Optothermal stability describes the rate at which an optical element distorts due to a changing thermal environment.
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Orbital eccentricity
In astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.
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Orbital period
The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object.
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Orbital resonance
In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers.
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Otto Struve
Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a Ukrainian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Paris Observatory
The Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.
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Parsec
The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to or (AU), i.e.. Exoplanet and parsec are Concepts in astronomy.
Perturbation (astronomy)
In astronomy, perturbation is the complex motion of a massive body subjected to forces other than the gravitational attraction of a single other massive body.
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Peter van de Kamp
Piet van de Kamp (December 26, 1901 – May 18, 1995), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived in the United States most of his life.
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PH1b
PH1b (standing for "Planet Hunters 1"), or by its NASA designation Kepler-64b, is an extrasolar planet found in a circumbinary orbit in the quadruple star system Kepler-64.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (English: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) often referred to as simply the Principia, is a book by Isaac Newton that expounds Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. Exoplanet and planet are Concepts in astronomy.
Planetary habitability
Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain environments hospitable to life. Exoplanet and Planetary habitability are Exoplanetology.
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Planetary phase
A planetary phase is a certain portion of a planet's area that reflects sunlight as viewed from a given vantage point, as well as the period of time during which it occurs.
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Planetary-mass object
A planetary-mass object (PMO), planemo, or planetary body is, by geophysical definition of celestial objects, any celestial object massive enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but not enough to sustain core fusion like a star.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Protoplanetary disk
A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star.
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Proxima Centauri
Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
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Proxima Centauri b
Proxima Centauri b (or Proxima b), also referred to as Alpha Centauri Cb, is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun and part of the larger triple star system Alpha Centauri.
See Exoplanet and Proxima Centauri b
PSR B1257+12
PSR B1257+12, previously designated PSR 1257+12, alternatively designated PSR J1300+1240, is a millisecond pulsar located from the Sun in the constellation of Virgo, rotating at about 161 times per second (faster than a blender's blade).
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PSR B1257+12 A
PSR B1257+12 b, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 A, also named Draugr, is an extrasolar planet approximately away in the constellation of Virgo.
See Exoplanet and PSR B1257+12 A
PSR B1620−26 b
PSR B1620-26 b is an exoplanet located approximately 12,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.
See Exoplanet and PSR B1620−26 b
PSR B1829−10
PSR B1829−10 (often shortened to PSR 1829−10) is a pulsar that is approximately 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum.
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Pulsar
A pulsar (from pulsating radio source) is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.
Pulsar planet
Pulsar planets are planets that are orbiting pulsars. Exoplanet and pulsar planet are types of planet.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
Red dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence.
Reflection (physics)
Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated.
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Ring system
A ring system is a disc or torus orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as gas, dust, meteoroids, planetoids or moonlets and stellar objects.
Rings of Saturn
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive and complex ring system of any planet in the Solar System.
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Rogue planet
A rogue planet, also termed a free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. Exoplanet and rogue planet are types of planet.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert is an independently run online publication and news source that publishes articles featuring scientific research, discoveries, and outcomes.
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ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Small planet radius gap
The small planet radius gap (also called the Fulton gap, photoevaporation valley, or Sub-Neptune Desert) is an observed scarcity of planets with radii between 1.5 and 2 times Earth's radius, likely due to photoevaporation-driven mass loss. Exoplanet and small planet radius gap are Exoplanetology.
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Solar analog
Solar-type stars, solar analogs (also analogues), and solar twins are stars that are particularly similar to the Sun.
See Exoplanet and Solar analog
Solar flare
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and science operations center for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Space.com
Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.
Spectral line
A spectral line is a weaker or stronger region in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum.
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Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research
Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (VLT-SPHERE) is an adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. Exoplanet and Spectroscopy are Concepts in astronomy.
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Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. Exoplanet and star are Concepts in astronomy.
Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction.
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Exoplanet and stellar classification are Concepts in astronomy.
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Stellar wind
A stellar wind is a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star.
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Stephen E. Thorsett
Stephen Erik Thorsett (born December 3, 1964) is an American academic and astronomer serving as the president of Willamette University.
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Sub-brown dwarf
A sub-brown dwarf or planetary-mass brown dwarf is an astronomical object that formed in the same manner as stars and brown dwarfs (i.e. through the collapse of a gas cloud) but that has a planetary mass, therefore by definition below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium (about). Some researchers call them rogue planets whereas others call them planetary-mass brown dwarfs. Exoplanet and sub-brown dwarf are types of planet.
See Exoplanet and Sub-brown dwarf
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
Super-Earth
A Super-Earth is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, which are 14.5 and 17 times Earth's, respectively. Exoplanet and Super-Earth are types of planet.
Super-Jupiter
A super-Jupiter is a gas giant exoplanet that is more massive than the planet Jupiter. Exoplanet and super-Jupiter are types of planet.
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Supernova
A supernova (supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. Exoplanet and supernova are Concepts in astronomy.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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Tau Boötis b
Tau Boötis b, or more precisely Tau Boötis Ab, is an extrasolar planet approximately 51 light-years away.
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Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate, rocks or metals. Exoplanet and terrestrial planet are types of planet.
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The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and currently published by IOP Publishing.
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The Astrophysical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Tech (newspaper)
The Tech, first published on November 16, 1881, is the student newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Jefferson Jackson See
Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven.
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Tidal circularization
Tidal circularization is an effect of the tidal forces between a body in orbit around a central celestial object, whereby the eccentricity of the orbit is reduced over time so that it becomes less and less elliptical.
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Tidal heating
Tidal heating (also known as tidal working or tidal flexing) occurs through the tidal friction processes: orbital and rotational energy is dissipated as heat in either (or both) the surface ocean or interior of a planet or satellite.
See Exoplanet and Tidal heating
Tidal locking
Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit.
See Exoplanet and Tidal locking
TOI-700 d
TOI-700 d is a near-Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf TOI-700, the outermost planet within the system.
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.
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TrES-2b
TrES-2b (also known as Kepler-1b or GSC 03549-02811b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811 located 750 light years away from the Solar System.
United States Naval Observatory
The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents. Exoplanet and universe are Concepts in astronomy.
Universe Today
Universe Today (U.T.) is a North American-based non-commercial space and astronomy news website.
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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Geneva
The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.
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University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
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Upsilon Andromedae
Upsilon Andromedae (υAndromedae, abbreviated Upsilon And, υAnd) is a binary star located 44 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Andromeda.
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V1400 Centauri
V1400 Centauri, also known as 1SWASP J140747.93−394542.6 or simply J1407, is a young, pre-main-sequence star that was eclipsed by the likely free-floating substellar object J1407b in April–June 2007.
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Van Maanen 2
Van Maanen 2, or van Maanen's Star, is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius. At a distance of 14.1 light-years it is the third closest of its type of star after Sirius B and Procyon B, in that order.
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Very Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
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Walter Sydney Adams
Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer.
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a (M51a) or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.
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White dwarf
A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.
William Stephen Jacob
William Stephen Jacob (1813–1862) was an English immigrant astronomer in India, who acted as the director of the Madras Observatory from 1848 to 1859.
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2MASS J0441+2301
2MASS J0441+2301 is a young quadruple system hosting a planetary-mass object, a red dwarf star and two brown dwarfs, approximately 470 light years (145 parsecs) away.
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51 Pegasi
51 Pegasi (abbreviated 51 Peg), formally named Helvetios, is a Sun-like star located from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
51 Pegasi b
51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet approximately away in the constellation of Pegasus.
70 Ophiuchi
70 Ophiuchi is a binary star system located 16.6 light years away from the Earth.
See also
Exoplanetology
- Atmospheric circulation of exoplanets
- Blanet
- Carl Sagan Institute
- Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets
- Detecting Earth from distant star-based systems
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- Earth Similarity Index
- Exoasteroid
- Exocomet
- Exometeorology
- Exomoon
- Exomoons
- Exoplanet
- Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters
- Exoplanets
- Extragalactic planet
- Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
- Giovanna Tinetti
- Interstellar object
- List of exoplanet search projects
- Methods of detecting exoplanets
- Minimum mass
- Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
- Origins Space Telescope
- Planetarium (board game)
- Planetary habitability
- Small planet radius gap
- Subsatellite
- Sudarsky's gas giant classification
- Transit-timing variation
Exoplanets
- Circumstellar disks
- Earth Similarity Index
- ExoLife Finder
- Exometeorology
- Exoplanet
- Exoplanet interiors
- Exoplanet naming convention
- Habitability of F-type main-sequence star systems
- Habitability of yellow dwarf systems
- Hot Jupiters
- Hot Neptunes
- Lists of exoplanets
- Lists of planets
- Mini-Neptune
- Neptunian exoplanet
- Pulsar planets
- Rogue planets
- Solar gravitational lens
- Sub-Neptune
- Super-Earths
Types of planet
- Brown dwarf
- Circumbinary planet
- Double planet
- Dwarf planet
- Dwarf planets
- Earth analog
- Eccentric Jupiter
- Exoplanet
- Extragalactic planet
- Gas giant
- Giant planet
- Giant planets
- Hot Jupiter
- Hot Jupiters
- Hot Neptune
- Hot Neptunes
- Hycean planet
- Ice planet
- Iron planet
- Lava planet
- List of planet types
- Mega-Earth
- Mesoplanet
- Ocean world
- Protoplanet
- Protoplanets
- Pulsar planet
- Pulsar planets
- Rogue planet
- Rogue planets
- Sub-Earth
- Sub-brown dwarf
- Super-Earth
- Super-Earths
- Super-Jupiter
- Super-Neptune
- Super-puff
- Synestia
- Terrestrial planet
- Terrestrial planets
- Toroidal planet
- Ultra-short period planet
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet
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