OGLEing Possible New Planets

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The BA frowns on such things, but here's the abstract of the original paper (a bit more technically written, though):

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202320

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

I don't think the BA would mind this much:

March 21, 2002 | For the first time, astronomers have discovered a bunch of new extrasolar planets — and perhaps other small, dark objects as well — by detecting the slight dimming they cause when passing across the face of a star.

The article says that they checked out 52,000 main-sequence stars, and came up with 46 that "clearly showed signs of smaller objects transiting across their faces."

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http://www.aao.gov.au/press/planets-03jul03.html
http://www.astro.psu.edu./users/jian....htm#project10
http://zenith.as.arizona.edu/~burrows/sbh/data_UpsAndb

http://zero.as.arizona.edu/~phinz/nullNov.html
Astronomers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in eastern Australia have found a planet like Jupiter in orbit round a nearby star that is very like our own Sun.

Among the hundred-odd planetary systems found so far, this is the one most similar to our Solar System

http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/...h07_3.html#7.3
http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/120382_index_0_m.html

http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/faq.html#anchor5837964

At optical wavelengths, a star outshines an Earth-like planet by a thousand million to one. Partly to overcome this difficulty, Darwin will observe in the mid-infrared. At these wavelengths, the star-planet contrast drops to a million to one, making detection a little easier
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3109910.stm
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_index.html

Jupiter or Mars-like planets beyond our Solar System may be serious contenders for harbouring life, says a British astrophysicist.
According to Professor Tim Naylor, of Exeter University, planets that do not resemble home should not be ruled out in the search for primitive lifeforms.
http://listes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/wws/arc/exoplanets
http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/01-02/10-29/planets.html

Wolszczan used the worlds largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to time the radio signals coming from a distant tiny neutron star in the constellation Virgo, 7,000 trillion miles from Earth. These measurements helped him to determine that two of the planets are similar in mass to Earth and the other is about the mass of the Moon

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Rho Coronae Borealis b, Goldilocks, iota Horologii b51 Pegasi b, Tau Bootes system, , Bellerophon, PSR 1257 pulsar planet, Epsilon Eridani planet, 55 Cancri b &amp; c planets, Gliese gas planet, child of aldebaran, Upsilon Andromedae b,70 Virginis b, "hot-jupiter" in Delphinus.

It may be only a matter of time before we find alien life
http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/cgt/...psplanets.html
http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/tech...t_imaging.html
http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEMK...ople_0_iv.html

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/alex/pulsar_planets.htm