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DTSTART:20100914T203000Z
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LOCATION:4421 Sterling Hall  Same Location
SUMMARY:The Transiting Extrasolar Planets - A vehicle to learn new fea
 tures about extrasolar systems\, Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk\, T
 sevi Mazeh\, Tel Aviv University
DESCRIPTION:About 100 of the known extrasolar planets eclipse their pa
 rent star once every orbital period. The detection of these transiting
  planets in the last few years allowed the derivation of the planetary
  masses and radii\, some of the parent star obliquity and sometimes ev
 en the planetary temperatures and atmospherical features. The talk wil
 l review the detection and study of the presently known transiting pla
 nets\, and will point out how the new systems are different from our o
 wn solar system. <br>
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\nThe new era of studying transiting plan
 ets from space by CoRoT and Kepler allows detection of minute modulati
 ons\, with amplitudes of the order of 10's ppm (parts per million). I 
 will discuss a recent detection of the ellipsoidal and the relativisti
 c beaming effects in the lightcurve of CoRoT-3. <br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1952
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