Question
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the first discovery of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10e] These objects were often found using the radial velocity method, which detects changes in a star’s radial velocity as it is affected by the gravity of these objects. Super-Earths are one type of these objects.
ANSWER: exoplanets [accept extrasolar planets; prompt on planets]
[10m] Today, this method is more commonly used to detect exoplanets. This method used by the Kepler mission can wrongly detect white and brown dwarfs as well since it finds an exoplanet’s radius but not its mass.
ANSWER: transit photometry
[10h] Mayor and Queloz’s discovery orbited this main-sequence star previously known as Helvetios. This star is part of a constellation in the northern sky containing the first exoplanet to be detected via the transit method.
ANSWER: 51 Pegasi
<Jay Kim, Other Science>
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