Detecting and characterizing extrasolar planetary systems with astrometry: review from the Blue Dots astrometry working group
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2009-12-03 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
The astrometry technique is an important tool for detecting and characterizing exoplanets of different type. In this review, the different projects which are either operating, in construction or in discussion are presented and their performance discussed in the framework of the Blue Dots study. We investigate the sensitivity of astrometry to different sources of noise and we show that astrometry is a key technique in the path of discovering and characterizing new types of planets including the very challenging category of Earth-like planets orbiting the habitable zone of solar-type stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.0400,
title = {Detecting and characterizing extrasolar planetary systems with astrometry: review from the Blue Dots astrometry working group},
author = {F. Malbet and A. Sozzetti and P. Lazorenko and R. Launhardt and D. Segransan and F. Delplancke and N. Elias and M. Muterspaugh and A. Quirrenbach and S. Reffert and G. van Belle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0400},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the "Pathways Towards Habitable Planets" conference, held in Barcelona (14-18 Sep 2009)