Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP)

Seminar Detail

The Future of Extrasolar Planet Searches

Presenter: Eric Agol

December 6, 2005 02:30 PM Pacific

I will review the present state of our knowledge of the properties of planets orbiting other stars, I will discuss how these planets have been
found, and I will outline the future prospects for finding yet more planets and even smaller planets. I will specifically focus on some novel
techniques that are still currently being developed, but may yield detections of planets in the near future. I will describe how this year a graduate student and I have demonstrated for the first time the capability of detecting earth-mass planets about a sun-like star with a technique we developed last year.

Participation Instructions

Connection Instructions:

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2) Via telephone: Dial the NASA conference phone number (877) 891-6023, passcode 381880.

3) Via Realmedia Player: You may watch the webcast at: http://vanseg-1.arc.nasa.gov/2005/AB051206-01.ram There is a 30 second delay for the webcast, so viewers will need to advance the slides manually in WebEx.

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