Radial-Velocity Searches for Planets Around Active Stars
Raphaelle D. Haywood
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Description for Radial-Velocity Searches for Planets Around Active Stars
Hardback. Series: Springer Theses. Num Pages: 155 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 57 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PG; PHVB; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 403.
This thesis develops new and powerful methods for identifying planetary signals in the presence of “noise” generated by stellar activity, and explores the physical origin of stellar intrinsic variability, using unique observations of the Sun seen as a star. In particular, it establishes that the intrinsic stellar radial-velocity variations mainly arise from suppression of photospheric convection by magnetic fields. With the advent of powerful telescopes and instruments we are now on the verge of discovering real Earth twins in orbit around other stars. The intrinsic variability of the host stars themselves, however, currently remains the main obstacle to determining the masses ... Read more
This thesis develops new and powerful methods for identifying planetary signals in the presence of “noise” generated by stellar activity, and explores the physical origin of stellar intrinsic variability, using unique observations of the Sun seen as a star. In particular, it establishes that the intrinsic stellar radial-velocity variations mainly arise from suppression of photospheric convection by magnetic fields. With the advent of powerful telescopes and instruments we are now on the verge of discovering real Earth twins in orbit around other stars. The intrinsic variability of the host stars themselves, however, currently remains the main obstacle to determining the masses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
Series
Springer Theses
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319412726
SKU
V9783319412726
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About Raphaelle D. Haywood
Raphaëlle D. Haywood studied Physics at Imperial College London, UK, where she obtained her MSci degree in 2011. She went on to do her PhD in Astrophysics on the detection of Neptune- and Earth-mass exoplanets under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Collier Cameron at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she recently graduated in fall 2015. She is now ... Read more
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