Which of the following methods has led to the most discoveries of massive planets orbiting near their parent stars?
A) detecting the starlight reflected off the planet
B) detecting the infrared light emitted by the planet
C) detecting the gravitational effect of an orbiting planet by looking for the Doppler shifts in the star's spectrum
D) detecting the shift of the star's position against the sky due to the planet's gravitational pull
E) detecting a planet ejected from a binary star system
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Q2: The transit method of planet detection works
Q3: Current techniques can measure stellar motion to
Q4: The size and shape of a planet's
Q5: What is astrometry?
A)measuring distances to stars
B)searching for
Q6: Which planet search technique is currently best
Q7: Which planet can we see occasionally transit
Q8: Approximately how many other planetary systems have
Q9: By itself,the Doppler technique provides a measure
Q10: Most of the planets discovered around other
Q11: The composition of a planet can be
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