Rice, Ken - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 296-323
We have now confirmed the existence of > 1800 planets orbiting stars other thanthe Sun; known as extrasolar planets or … exoplanets. The different methods for detectingsuch planets are sensitive to different regions of parameter space, and so, we are … discoveringa wide diversity of exoplanets and exoplanetary systems. Characterizing such planets isdifficult, but we are starting to …