Re: Earth-size planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B
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 ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Earth-size planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B
Not in the habitable zone, however . . . Here are the announcements, in increasing order of "technicality": (1) Popular-level from 'Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/16/alpha-centauri-has-a-planet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29 or http://snipurl.com/25bmv59 (2) The ESO announcement: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/ (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 ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
