Interesting project. Particularly promising seems the search using this Australian interferometer planet in the Alpha Centauri down to Earth mass. And there are no special difficulties - simply measure the angular distance between the stars of the binary system with an accuracy of a few angular microseconds. There is no need to calibrate the stars.
ciceron Planetary Embryo
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Subject: Re: MUSCA project 30th July 2010, 2:28 pm
nice... we'll have to keep an eye on them.
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Borislav Jovian
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Subject: Re: MUSCA project 1st August 2010, 12:52 pm
The only there is problem with this method - to understand around a precisely star rotates found planet in a binary system. I think so still need additional calibration stars.
Sirius_Alpha Admin
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Subject: Re: MUSCA project 1st August 2010, 12:56 pm
In the case of α Cen, there's plenty of stars in that area of the sky.
I wonder, can one use both stars in a binary system as each other's calibration?
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Borislav Jovian
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Subject: Re: MUSCA project 1st August 2010, 1:11 pm
Sirius_Alpha wrote:
I wonder, can one use both stars in a binary system as each other's calibration?
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