Title: The mass of the young planet Beta Pictoris b through the astrometric motion of its host star
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Directly measuring the mass of an imaged planet
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Cool Stars 20
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SPIE From the Perspective of a Non-Instrumentalist
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Continuing on the thread from Friday’s post, today’s post is also about the recent SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference that took place a few weeks ago in Austin, TX. As the title says, I’m not an instrumentalist so normally I would not attend this conference. But, since I live in Austin and SPIE was kind enough to offer astrobites press credentials, I went for one day. (You can find another post on this year’s conference here and on the same conference two years ago here.)
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A classic optics experiment, in space with asteroids and AGNs!
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Title: Radio interferometric observation of an asteroid occultation
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Statistically Confirming an Earth-Like Planet? Not So Fast!
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Title: Kepler’s Earth-like Planets Should Not Be Confirmed Without Independent Detection: The Case of Kepler-452b
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