Open Physics Sims
Finding exoplanets
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Transits
2
Wobble
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Mystery planet
How to use it ↓
Start observing
Start over
2 h/s
1 day/s
10 days/s
100 days/s
against time
folded
fold at
days
averages
radius
Earths
mass
Earths
kind of planet…
rocky, like Earth
gas-rich
Check
Reveal
New mystery planet
Star
planets:
Planet's radius
Planet's mass
Orbit's radius
Tilt of the orbit (90° = edge-on)
Spectrograph's precision
10 m/s, like the 1990s
1 m/s, today's best
0.1 m/s, hoped for
brightness scale
velocity scale
the star's edge is dimmer (limb darkening)