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The Doppler Method for the Detection of Exoplanets
A P Hatzes
Thüringen Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, D-07778 Tautenburg, Germany
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ISBN 978-0-7503-1689-7 (ebook)
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DOI 10.1088/2514-3433/ab46a3
Version: 20191201
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ISSN 2514-3433 (online)
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2515-141X
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2018
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Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 The Dawn of Doppler Measurements
1.2 Early Work on Stellar Radial Velocity Measurements
1.3 Toward Precise Stellar Radial Velocity Measurements
1.4 The Early Hints of Exoplanets
2 The Instruments for Doppler Measurements
2.1.3 Dispersion and Spectral Resolution
2.2 Fourier Transform Spectrometers
