Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing

Earth-like extra-solar planets may be detected with 1-2m class telescopes using the gravitational microlensing technique. The essential requirement is the ability to be able to carry out continuous observations of the galactic bulge. A telescope situated at Dome A or Dome C in Antarctica would be em...

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Main Author: Yock, Philip
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2005
Subjects:
Astrophysics astro-ph
FOS Physical sciences
Milky Way
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508603
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508603
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508603 2023-05-15T14:00:05+02:00 Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing Yock, Philip 2005 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508603 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508603 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2005 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508603 2022-04-01T16:09:31Z Earth-like extra-solar planets may be detected with 1-2m class telescopes using the gravitational microlensing technique. The essential requirement is the ability to be able to carry out continuous observations of the galactic bulge. A telescope situated at Dome A or Dome C in Antarctica would be eminently suitable. Two possible observing strategies are described here. One employs a 1m visible (V and I passbands) telescope, the other a 2m wide-field near infrared telescope. Either telescope could allow a rough measurement of the abundance of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way to be made in a few years. Useful measurements could also be made on stellar atmospheres. : 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Acta Astronomica Sinica in Proc. Conf. on Wide Field Telescope on Dome C/A, Beijing, June 2005 Report Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Milky Way ENVELOPE(-68.705,-68.705,-71.251,-71.251)
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FOS Physical sciences
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FOS Physical sciences
Yock, Philip
Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
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FOS Physical sciences
description Earth-like extra-solar planets may be detected with 1-2m class telescopes using the gravitational microlensing technique. The essential requirement is the ability to be able to carry out continuous observations of the galactic bulge. A telescope situated at Dome A or Dome C in Antarctica would be eminently suitable. Two possible observing strategies are described here. One employs a 1m visible (V and I passbands) telescope, the other a 2m wide-field near infrared telescope. Either telescope could allow a rough measurement of the abundance of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way to be made in a few years. Useful measurements could also be made on stellar atmospheres. : 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Acta Astronomica Sinica in Proc. Conf. on Wide Field Telescope on Dome C/A, Beijing, June 2005
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author Yock, Philip
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title Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
title_short Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
title_full Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
title_fullStr Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
title_full_unstemmed Detecting Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets from Antarctica by Gravitational Microlensing
title_sort detecting earth-like extra-solar planets from antarctica by gravitational microlensing
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url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508603
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http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/
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