Exoplanets and Detection Methods
Physics ⇒ Earth and Space Physics
Exoplanets and Detection Methods starts at 9 and continues till grade 12.
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A star’s light dims by 1% every 10 days. What does this suggest about a possible exoplanet?
A star’s spectrum shows periodic red and blue shifts. What does this indicate?
Describe how the mass of an exoplanet can be estimated using the radial velocity method.
Describe one advantage and one disadvantage of the gravitational microlensing method.
Describe the main limitation of the transit method for detecting exoplanets.
Describe what is meant by the 'habitable zone' around a star.
Explain how the radial velocity (Doppler) method works for detecting exoplanets.
Explain the principle behind gravitational microlensing in exoplanet detection.
Explain why combining the transit and radial velocity methods is useful in exoplanet studies.
Explain why exoplanets are difficult to detect directly.
Explain why the transit method is more likely to detect large planets than small ones.
What is an exoplanet?
