Questions tagged [exoplanet]
Questions regarding planets that lie outside the Solar System.
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Where to find data on orbits of exoplanetary systems?
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question which entails asking if there is a database much like the JPL NASA one for the solar system, but for exoplanetary systems? I am conducting an n ...
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What are the analysis steps in taking raw data from Kepler to a planetary system determination
I wish to get a concise list of the analysis steps required to take raw light data from a Kepler data set of a star through the steps needed to get to an analytical determination of the existence of a ...
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About the formation of ice giants and gas giants
I asked this previously in Worldbuilding stack exchange, and they recommended that I take it here.
How far out from a star (lets just say one identical to our sun, for simplicities sake) where can gas ...
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Just how resonant is the "resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067"?
The November 29, 2023 arXiv preprint A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067 constructs a resonant chain of orbital periods based on mean motion resonances (MMRs) and ...
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Size of the solar system relative to exosystems
How does the semi-major axis of Mercury's orbit compare to that of the innermost planet of other exosystems? What about the semi-major of Neptune compared to that of the outmost planet of a system? I'...
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How would a person know if a planet is orbiting a binary star?
I read in Neil deGrasse Tyson's book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry that scientists can tell if a star has a planet orbiting it because the light appears to shake.
So if in the case of a binary ...
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Is an earth-sized moon orbiting a super-earth feasible?
Is an earth-sized moon orbiting a super-earth feasible?
Or would tidal forces say 'no thanks'?
I'm making a system for the Kerbal Space Program Kopernicus mod and am trying to make it as realistic as ...
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Is there enough data in light coming from distant exoplanets for Earth-orbiting telescopes to take a high-resolution photo of it?
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken very blurry "photos" of exoplanets around distant stars, such as the exoplanet HIP 65426 b, in different bands of infrared light:
My question is, ...
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Solar system datasets for exoplanet analogs?
Are there data from the solar system available, that are about quantities we regularly investigate in exoplanet searches?
The only collection I know of comes from this paper: "A Catalog of ...
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Are there plans to detect life on Earth from the outer solar system?
This has been kicking around in my head for a while. We've been detecting planets for decades by observing regular dips in starlight from many light years away as a planet transits its host star. I've ...
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Determining Stellar Activity
I've been into exoplanets and the search for life for a few years now, but I'm still very much an amateur. The basics are fairly easy: habitable zone adjusted for planet/moon mass, no brown dwarves (...
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Question regarding potential moon sizes
I am planning out ideas for a science-fiction world, and I want to make sure that what I include is reasonable and mathematically sound (outside of things like FTL as that is neccessary for the story ...
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Could a super Jovian planet have mild radiation belts?
Will a large gas giant always have powerful radiation belts or could a milder radiation environment exist even around super Jovian planets? I know Jupiter’s radiation belts are so strong due to a ...
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Help with simulating long-term orbital dynamics of exoplanetary systems using Rebound
I am a junior in high school working on an independent research project and I need help because I've reached the limits of my knowledge. My goal is to simulate the long-term orbital dynamics of ...
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Are there any Stars we know don't have planets?
We have been looking for planets around other stars for a while (see related https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1484 ) and we are finding lots of planets, some of them are Earth like According ...
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How common are there planets with significant share of oxygen in atmosphere?
Has been there detected any exoplanets with significant share of oxygen in atmosphere? What does the theory predict?
Superficially this looks like it should be fairly common: there is a lot of water ...
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Is there any planet bigger than a star?
Or a star smaller than a planet?
Which star and planet would be an example of this?
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Looking for feedback for my python GUI: visualise exoplanet transit and simulate atmospheric temperature
This isn't necessarily an astronomy question (although there may be plenty of astronomy errors in my GUI), and I apologise in advance if this kind of thing is not allowed here and the question is to ...
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If E.T. alien civilizations exist, won't those exoplanets be almost the age and rate of progress as ours? [closed]
This question is posed also as a mini theory, although I am really asking if someone knows how some parts of our universe would be far-more advanced if "everything" started at the same time (...
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Looking for a Specific Planet
I know my title isn't the most specific, but the planet I am looking for is. I have been looking through many exoplanets and I can't seem to find what I am looking for, the closest I have found is ...
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Could sky islands exist on exoplanets or moons?
Sky Islands are a popular sci-fi trope. Think the Avatar films, the Legend of Zelda Nintendo switch games and so on.
Is there any configuration of exoplanets or moons that could sustain a large body ...
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What have we ruled out as far as planets orbiting Gliese 710 goes?
My thoughts are that, if we are still around 1.3 million years from now, we might actually be able to send a mission there. Will the spectrometers of the 30 meter telescopes that are coming on line ...
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Is there a link between a star's metallicity and the availability of chemical elements in its system?
Considering aspects of interstellar trade for worldbuilding purposes, I'm researching what resources might be available in each star system.
The premise is that if one star system has an abundance of ...
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How common are exoplanets with no atmosphere?
I'm guessing that real data about exoplanets will be unhelpful because it's hard to detect low-mass planets, and thus answers are likely to be based on the kind of educated-guesswork that we relied on ...
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How often does the configuration of the Trappist-1 system repeat
My question is simply how long it takes for the 7 known planets in Trappist-1 to be in the same configuration in relation to their host star, and to each-other. Those seven planets are in a 2:3:4:6:9:...
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Estimating the radius of a non-transiting exoplanet
I need to know the timescale of tidal locking of a non-transiting exoplanet. For that, I need to know (or at least have some constraint of) its radius (Gladman et al. 1996):
$$T_{lock} = k \frac{a^6}{...
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Does Trappist-1 have a Periodic Configuration? [duplicate]
Trappist-1's planetary system is notable for having 7 planets in a resonance chain. I would think, since all the planets are in resonance, the system would have a repeating configuration that could be ...
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Which of the exoplanets are having retrograde rotation?
By exoplanet, I mean planets outside of our solar system(i.e., planets in other solar systems). If we talk about our solar system, then Venus, Uranus, and Pluto have retrograde rotation. Most of the ...
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Exo Planets and Planets difference?
After hearing that it has been confirmed that we found seven similar exoplanets like earth. I thought exoplanets were dead stars. After doing a little bit of research I found out that exoplanets are ...
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How can I find or calculate ephemeris data for the planets in an extrasolar system, specifically Trappist-1?
The ultimate, perfect answer would be a link to someone's ephemeris file in SPICE kernel format. That's not a realistic hope.
Googling and gnawing, I've found orbital periods, eccentricities, and ...
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What precisely leads to planets like COCONUTS-2b to orbit so far away from their host stars, 6000 AU in its case?
Taking our Solar System as an example, most gas giants formed relatively close by (a few AU) and drifted away to reasons I don't know, from an explanation I recall reading. Simply orbiting a few AU ...
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On a log-log plot of surface gravity to planet mass, what is the meaning of the y-intercept?
I am playing around with data from exoplanets.org, and am interested in the plot of surface gravity to planet mass. I reproduced this plot:
after downloading their data and performed a non-linear ...
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True masses of exoplanets from Gaia
At Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanets#Space_telescopes it says "The Gaia mission, launched in December 2013, will use astrometry to determine the true masses ...
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Can a star with a stellar mass of 1.176 with a similar composition to the Sun have a planet with these characteristics?
Imagine a solar system similar to ours that has a star with a similar composition to the Sun and a stellar mass of 1.176 and an Earthlike planet with about 1.18 times the mass of Earth in its ...
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What stellar conditions and orbital distance are needed to produce a year length of 515 Earth days and 9 Earth hours on an Earthlike planet?
A planet has a year length of 515 Earth days and 9 Earth hours. It is the same size and has the same climate as Earth. What stellar conditions would be needed to produce this and what orbital distance ...
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Is it possible for planetary rings to be perpendicular (or near perpendicular) to the planet's orbit around the host star?
Is it possible for planetary rings to be perpendicular (or near perpendicular) to the planet's orbit around the host star?
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Exoplanet radius density relation according to NASA exoplanet archive
I downloaded the info from NASA exoplanet archive at: https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/nph-tblView?app=ExoTbls&config=compositepars
I named the file "NASA.Composite....
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Is a bromine planet possible?
Is it possible to have a terrestrial, rocky, earth-sized planet (by earth-sized I mean approximately the same mass and volume as earth) which has vast quantities of bromine on its surface, in the form ...
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How to calculate the day/permanently dark/night temperatures of different surfaces for exoplanets?
I am trying to calculate the different temperatures (day, night, permanent day/night for tidally locked planets) for different surfaces of exoplanets like land, water, gas, ice.
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How accurate is the Sudarsky Scale today?
How accurate is the Sudarsky scale of gas-giant classification today? Do the different classes still exist, and look roughly the same?
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Are we searching for supercriticality of exoplanet water via passive spectral analysis?
Much spectrum analysis on many chemical compounds are mapped and categorized at Earth atmosphere (1000 millibar) or thereabouts.
But many celestial objects are of greater ranges of surface pressure.
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What do chthonian planets look like?
Obviously, a chthonian is going to be hot, but what colours could it have? What would the surface composition be? Would it keep patterns from the gas-bands it used to have, or would those have been ...
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Exoplanet radius from stellar distance
Do you need to know the distance to a star to work out the radius of any planets it has?
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Goldilocks Zone Temperature Range for Habitation
Is there a generally accepted Kelvin temperature range for exoplanets habitable zone. So for example, I can look at for example, http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/toi-2134_b/ and say the planet is in the ...
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Finding the Phase of an Exoplanet using the ephemeries
So I'm currently researching Star-planet Interactions for HD 156279, I'm taking the flux of the Ca II H&K lines and trying to plot them against the phase of the planet, looking for evidence of ...
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Could it be possible to detect planets from stars that went supernova through the resulting nebula shape?
It ocurred me, if a star with at least one planetary companion undergoes a nova or supernova, we shoud expect the debris to be deflected to some degree, on exit. To ilustrate it, first let's take the ...
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Why there are no terrestrial planets with a subsurface ocean?
Subsurface oceans in satellites are pretty common: Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, Callisto, maybe Pluto... This is due to tidal heating of their host planet, Jupiter and Saturn, which heats up the inner ...
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What phases of a moon orbiting Proxima Centauri b could be seen?
Assuming a moon like Earth's natural satellite would be orbiting the Proxima Centauri b at a similar distance, what moon phases could be seen from the planet's surface at coordinates 0;55?
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Seeing exoplanets with glare
My understanding is that the main obsracle to seeing habitable planets is glare. Right now, the best solutions are coronagraphs and proposed starshade satellites which blocks the star.
But is this the ...
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How is the extent of the rings of J1407b, a "Super Saturn," compatible with the Roche limit?
J1407 is a Sun-like star in Centaurus. Astronomers observed its exoplanet J1407b pass before it over several weeks and the details of the light curves indicate the exoplanet has over thirty rings, ...
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