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Doppler spectroscopy

Diagram showing how a smaller object (such as an extrasolar planet) orbiting a larger object (such as a star) could produce changes in position and velocity of the latter as they orbit their common center of mass (red cross).
Doppler spectroscopy detects periodic shifts in radial velocity by recording variations in the color of light from the host star. When a star moves towards the Earth, its spectrum is blueshifted, while it is redshifted when it moves away from us. By analyzing these spectral shifts, astronomers can deduce the gravitational influence of extrasolar planets.[1]

Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star. As of November 2022, about 19.5% of known extrasolar planets (18 of the total) have been discovered using Doppler spectroscopy.[2]

  1. ^ Wenz, John (10 October 2019). "Lessons from scorching hot weirdo-planets". Knowable Magazine. Annual Reviews. doi:10.1146/knowable-101019-2. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Exoplanet and Candidate Statistics". NASA Exoplanet Archive. NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

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مطيافية دوبلر Arabic Метад Доплера BE Espectroscòpia Doppler Catalan Espectroscopia Doppler Spanish طیف‌سنجی داپلر FA Säteisnopeusmenetelmä Finnish Méthode des vitesses radiales French Spettroscopia Doppler Italian ドップラー分光法 Japanese 도플러 분광학 Korean

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