Exoplanets

Question 1

The first of these objects discovered by the Keck Observatory was the Gliese 876b, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for
discovering one of these objects named 51 (+) Pegasi b.

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Question 2

. These objects can be detected with the radial-velocity method, while other methods for detecting these objects
include Doppler spectroscopy and transit photometry.

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Question 3

Gas (*) Giants, Neptunian, and Super-Earth are types of, for the points, what planetary bodies that orbit a star outside of the solar system?”

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Question 4

“Doppler spectroscopy is a common way to find these objects, the least massive of which is Draugr.

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Question 5

Bellerophon [[beh-LEH-roh-fun]] is a prototype for ““hot Jupiters,”” which are examples of these objects. TRAPPIST-1 is a system with several of these objects, and dimming can be observed when looking for these objects using the transit method.

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Question 6

Habitable examples of these objects could be present in the Goldilocks zone.

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Question 7

For the point, name these objects which orbit stars that are not the sun.”

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Question 8

“The most common methods for detecting these objects include the radial velocity method and the transit method. When found in the habitable (+) zone, these objects are said to be in the ““goldilocks”” zone.

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Question 9

Examples of these objects include super-Earths and (*) hot Jupiters. For the point, name these rocky or gaseous bodies that orbit stars other than our Sun.”

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Question 10

For the point, name these planets that circle stars other than our Sun.”

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Question 11

NASA expects to discover thousands of these objects via the TESS mission launched in 2018.

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Question 12

The first confirmed discovery of one of these objects was Pegasi 51b, which falls under a class of these objects within the frost line known as ““Hot Jupiters.”

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Question 13

Before being retired in 2018, the Kepler space telescope discovered many of these objects by the transit method when they orbited in front of a bright star.

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Question 14

” If they exist in the habitable zone, these objects are potential sources for life.

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Question 15

“The radial velocity method of detecting these objects, involving small Doppler shifts, was the first successful method used to find these objects.

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Question 16

In recent years, changes in brightness can help detect these objects by using variations of the transit method.

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Question 17

Poltergeist and Phobetor [foh-beh-tor] were the first of these objects to be confirmed.

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Question 18

For the point, identify these objects, of which over 4,000 have been discovered orbiting stars other than our sun.”

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