Chapter 8: more lessons on planets
Planet Hunters Coffee Chat is back! Welcome to our 38th episode. We hope you've had a relaxing break from exoplanet science (Nora definitely needs one of those now she's finished writing her thesis!) Today, we're learning about another method used to detect exoplanets, called radial velocity (RV). You'll have heard us mention this in previous episodes but in this episode, we're getting into the nitty-gritty and calculating an exoplanet's mass.
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