Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Found: Planet orbiting distant star




U of T researchers capture image of planet orbiting distant star


Planet-hunting astronomers at the University of Toronto say they have taken a picture of a rare sight - a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system.


15/09/2008 8:59:02 PM

CBC News

Astronomers David Lafreniere, Ray Jayawardhana and Marten van Kerkwijk made their finding after doing a survey of 80 stars taken using the Gemini North telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Their findings, which have been submitted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters, have been posted online on Cornell University's arXiv website.
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http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1424