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Space/Science » in reply to re: Alberto? It was no joke; GQ Lupi does indeed have a planet.

re: Alberto? It was no joke; GQ Lupi does indeed have a planet.

The planet's orbital period is estimated to be 1200 years so there's not much Doppler due to its orbital velocity - but the Doppler component due to rotation about a planet/moon CG could be significantly greater. Hopefully, the planets IR signal will be intense enough to get usable spectral lines for both line-of-sight velocity variations and compositional data.

Somehow, I don't think the investigators will need an e-mail to prompt them to make these measurements ;).

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