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I have the task of presenting a 100/150ish word abstract on Monday to summarise the assigment that makes up the astronomy unit I am taking this semester. This is my draft version of the general form needed:Extrasolar planets are planets which do not orbit the Sun. Methods with which they can be detected are X, Y and Z. Although Z has had most success so far Y is more promising in the long run. Properties of planets detected tend to these categories. Although no earthlike planets have been detected so far projects A, B and C offer hope that this will change in the future.
But it needs to be filled in and expanded before I can submit it. X can be pulsar timing. To maintain the order I gave, Z should be the doppler method and Y the transit method. I also need to add in at least another, direct detection. We can pretend it was originally designated W. For the future projects I can use Kepler and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (or whatever those things have become since I last looked into this area) and any others there may be. Hopefully there is at least one. This does not, of course, have to be the same as the abstract I present at the front of the final essay but it does need to show I am putting effort and thought towards this unit.
Categorising the planets found so far is a little trickier at least in part because I don't quite remember their names. The hot jupiters is an easy one; those giant planets found in extremely close near-circular orbits about their parent star. There is a group of planets recognised as having (somewhat) more distant, more eccentric orbits as well as another called the familiar giants. And the pulsar planets.
But I grow tired now, so verifying what I wrote here and filling out the text can wait until tomorrow.
But it needs to be filled in and expanded before I can submit it. X can be pulsar timing. To maintain the order I gave, Z should be the doppler method and Y the transit method. I also need to add in at least another, direct detection. We can pretend it was originally designated W. For the future projects I can use Kepler and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (or whatever those things have become since I last looked into this area) and any others there may be. Hopefully there is at least one. This does not, of course, have to be the same as the abstract I present at the front of the final essay but it does need to show I am putting effort and thought towards this unit.
Categorising the planets found so far is a little trickier at least in part because I don't quite remember their names. The hot jupiters is an easy one; those giant planets found in extremely close near-circular orbits about their parent star. There is a group of planets recognised as having (somewhat) more distant, more eccentric orbits as well as another called the familiar giants. And the pulsar planets.
But I grow tired now, so verifying what I wrote here and filling out the text can wait until tomorrow.
