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Chapter
The New Planetary Systems
A summary on recent results about planet detections are presented. Some results about brown-dwarfs are also discussed in the context of the maximum mass for a giant planet and the realm of planetary formation ...
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Chapter
Indirect Searches: Doppler Spectroscopy and Pulsar Timing
The search for planetary systems by monitoring the motion of stellar objects along the line-of-sight is, up to now, the most efficient and successful way to detect planets. For millisec-pulsars, the measuremen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Epicurus was Right: Other Worlds Exist!
The discovery of the first planet orbiting a solar type star acted on all groups working in that field as a tremendeous stimulation. Nine months after the discovery of 51 Peg B, five planetary companions have ...