Recognition of the First Observational Evidence of an Extrasolar Planetary System
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2014-10-10 v1
Abstract
With 20-20 hindsight, it is now possible to say that the first observational indication -- by any means -- of the existence of an extrasolar planetary system came almost a century ago when van Maanen discovered and noted the spectrum of the nearest single white dwarf to Earth.
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@article{arxiv.1410.2575,
title = {Recognition of the First Observational Evidence of an Extrasolar Planetary System},
author = {B. Zuckerman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2575},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
To appear in the 2015 PASP Conference Proceedings of the "19th European White Dwarf Workshop" (held 11-15 August 2014 in Montreal, Canada)