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008			150930s2016 njua b 001 0 eng d
010			_a2015953471
020			_a9780691156811 (hbk)
020			_a0691156816 (hbk)
035			_a.b80584366
035			_a(OCoLC)908083548
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050	0	0	_aQB820 _b.J64 2016
100	1		_aJohnson, John Asher,
245	1	0	_aHow do you find an exoplanet? / _cJohn Asher Johnson
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2016]
300			_axv, 178 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPrinceton frontiers in physics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index
505	0		_aIntroduction. My brief history -- The human activity of watching the sky -- Asking why the planets move as they do -- Exoplanets and completing the Copernican revolution -- Stellar wobbles. At the telescope -- For every action -- Eccentric orbits -- Measuring precise radial velocities -- Stellar jitter -- Design considerations for a Doppler survey -- Concluding remarks -- Seeing the shadows of planets. Measuring and reading transit signals -- The importance of a/R* -- Transit timing variations -- Measuring the brightness of a star -- Radial velocities first, transits second -- Transit first, radial velocities second -- From close in to further out -- Planets bending space-time. The geometry of microlensing -- The microlensing light curve -- The microlensing signal of a planet -- Microlensing surveys -- Directly imaging planets. The problem of angular resolution -- The problem of contrast -- The problem of chance alignment -- Measuring the properties of an imaged planet -- The future of planet hunting. Placing the solar system in context -- Learning how planets form -- Finding life outside the solar system -- Giant planets as the tip of the iceberg -- The future of the Doppler method : moving to dedicated instrumentation -- The future of transit surveys -- The future of microlensing -- The future of direct imaging -- Concluding remarks
520			_aAn authoritative primer on the four key techniques that today's planet hunters use to detect the feeble signals of planets orbiting distant stars.-- _cSource other than the Library of Congress
650		0	_aExtrasolar planets _xDetection
650		0	_aExtrasolar planets _xResearch _xMethodology
830		0	_aPrinceton frontiers in physics
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