The Kepler space telescope has detected transits of objects as small as the Earth’s Moon, and moons as small as 0.2 Earth masses can be detected in the Kepler data […]
Exomoon
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Magnetic Shielding of Exomoons Beyond the Circumplanetary Habitable Edge
With most planets and planetary candidates detected in the stellar habitable zone being super-Earths and gas giants, rather than Earth-like planets, we naturally wonder if their moons could be habitable. […]
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Detection of Exomoons Through Their Modulation of Exoplanetary Radio Emissions
In the Jupiter-Io system, the moon’s motion produces currents along the field lines that connect the moon to the Jupiter’s polar regions, where the radio emission is modulated by the […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Status Report
The First Search for an Exomoon around a Habitable-Zone Planet
Kepler-22b is the first transiting planet to have been detected in the habitable-zone of its host star. At 2.4 Earth radii, Kepler-22b is too large to be considered an Earth-analog, […]
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NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery
NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency’s Kepler mission. The briefing will be held in the Syvertson […]
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The Detectability of Habitable Exomoons with Kepler
In this paper, the detectability of habitable exomoons orbiting around giant planets in M-dwarf systems using Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) and Transit Timing Durations (TDVs) with Kepler-class photometry is investigated. […]