C. Eiroa, A. Alberdi, Harley A. Thronson Jr., T. de Graauw, C.J. Schalinski
The past year has produced some of the most exciting results in the history of astronomy, particularly in the area of planets outside our solar system. Only a half-year before our meeting in Toledo, Spain, the first unambiguous detection of planet-sized masses orbiting main sequence stars were reported. Since that time, evidence for a new exo planet has been reported almost at the rate of about once per month. Some of these objects are likely to turn out to be very low-mass stars, but something like half show characteristics - Jupiter-like mass and near-zero orbital eccentricity - which...
The past year has produced some of the most exciting results in the history of astronomy, particularly in the area of planets outside our solar system...