Keith Horne: Extra-solar planets
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1995 First Doppler Wobble Planet:<br />
51 Peg<br />
Discovered by accident:<br />
Mayor & Queloz (1995)<br />
Quickly confirmed:<br />
Marcy & Butler (1995)<br />
P = 4.2 days (!)<br />
a = 0.05 AU<br />
T ~2000K<br />
m sin(i) = 0.5 m J<br />
New class of planet:<br />
“Hot Jupiter”
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