Extrasolar Planets in the Radio
The most favorable contrast between light from Jupiter and light from the sun is in the radio, not the mid-infrared! Here is some information about searching for extrasolar planets in radio emission. Animation from Imke De Pater's home page More information on this VLA data from The Sydney Regional Scientific Visualisation Laboratory. |
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Websites about Radio Exoplanet Searches
Green Bank Telescope LOFAR Nancay Decameter Array LOFAR VLA and UTR-2 (in French) Arecibo (SERENDIP) |
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Papers and Presentations on Radio Exoplanet Searches
Bastian, T. S., Dulk, G. A. & Leblanc, Y. 2000, ApJ, 545, 1058 ADS De Pater, I. Presentation about Solar System Studies with LOFAR PDF Dulk, G. A., Leblanc, Y., & Bastian, T. S. 1997, ``Search for Cyclotron-maser Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets,''BAAS, DPS meeting 29, 28.03 Farrell, W. M., Desch, M. D. & Zarka, P. 1999, JGR, Vol 104, E6, 14025 ADS Zarka, P., Treumann, R.A., Ryabov, B.P., Ryabov, V.B., 2000, 'Magnetically driven planetary radio emissions and application to extrasolar planets' ps Background Reading Goldreich, P. and Lynden-Bell, D. 1969, Astrophys. J., 155, 59, "Io, a Jovian unipolar inductor" ADS Wu, C.S & Lee, L.C. 1979, ApJ, 230, 621 "A theory of the Terrestrial Kilometric Radiation" ADS Marc Kuchner's Home Page |