On 10/17/2012 7:12 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Not in the habitable zone, however . . .
...
(3) Copy of the article to appear in today's issue of NATURE for those
who want all of the technical details:
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1241/eso1241a.pdf
Ronn--
Thank you! That's an interesting article.
They used a lot of observing time on a large telescope, and seemed to be
really pushing the limits.
I think the trickiest part was accounting for how "sun spots" would
affect the relative luminosity
of the parts of the star rotating towards versus away from us. One may
just have to give up on finding
planets with orbital periods close to a star's rotational period?
---David
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