August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... planets in our solar system. Most of the known exoplanets have been discovered by the transit method or the Doppler radial velocity technique. The transit method detects planets by measuring the fraction of starlight they block as they pass in front...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
...gravitational pull of the smaller planet whizzing around it. The transit method on the other hand involves monitoring a star to detect... thousand light years away than the wobble method, but the transit method also has a high rate of false detections...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...of three main ‘indirect’ techniques used to detect planets, the others being the astrometry and transit methods. The radial velocity method has been the prominent technique used by astronomers to find exoplanets and, whilst it is obviously successful...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... is expected to provide insights about hot, young planets in the outer regions of their solar systems. For the transit method, spectroscopic observations can be derived both as an exoplanet passes in front of the star and just before and after...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...for exoplanets by detecting the fractional dip in a star’s brightness as an orbiting exoplanet passes by, a technique known as the transit method. For every sector that TESS looks at, the spacecraft will collect brightness measurements of the 200,000...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... anticipated RV signal is much lower than the sensitivity of current RV instruments, therefore other techniques such as the transit method or direct imaging are needed to confirm the existence of this newly discovered planet. For further information...
