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Monash Astro Seminars
2pm, Monday 31 August 2009; Maths, Rm. 345
Karen Lewis
"The detectability of moons of extra solar planets using the photometric timing technique and the pulsar time-of-arrival technique."
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With over 350 planets discovered around other stars, the possibility of detecting moons of these planets is starting to be explored in the literature. In particular, a number of the proposed moon detection methods use timing of events associated with the host e.g. the time of arrival of radio pulses from a planet-hosting pulsar. Within this context I will review the two moon detection methods investigated in my thesis: * Photometric transit timing and * Pulsar time-of-arrival. These techniques will be discussed in terms of the timing perturbation caused by the moon, the astrophysical noise sources which can mask this signal, and the corresponding realistic moon detection thresholds.
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Please email all enquiries to daniel.price@sci.monash.edu.au or rosemary.mardling@sci.monash.edu.au
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