Search for possible exomoons with the FAST telescope

Our knowledge of the solar system encourages us to believe that we might expect exomoons to be present around some known exoplanets. With present hardware and existing optical astronomy methods, we do not expect to be able to find exomoons for at least 10 years, and even then, it will be a hard task...

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Published inResearch in astronomy and astrophysics Vol. 17; no. 12; pp. 27 - 30
Main Author Dragan V.Luki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Beijing National Astronomical Observatories, CAS and IOP Publishing Ltd 01.12.2017
IOP Publishing
Subjects
Apertures
Astronomy
exomoons
exoplanets: general
exoplanets: radioastronomy
Extrasolar moons
Extrasolar planets
Planetary orbits
Radio astronomy
Radio telescopes
Solar system
Telescopes
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Summary:Our knowledge of the solar system encourages us to believe that we might expect exomoons to be present around some known exoplanets. With present hardware and existing optical astronomy methods, we do not expect to be able to find exomoons for at least 10 years, and even then, it will be a hard task to detect them. Using data from the Exoplanet Orbit Database（EOD） we find stars with Jovian exoplanets within 50 light years. Most of them will be fully accessible by the new radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope（FAST）, under construction which is now in the test phase. We suggest radio astronomy based methods to search for possible exomoons around two exoplanets.
Bibliography:exoplanets：general;exoplanets：radioastronomy;exomoons
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Our knowledge of the solar system encourages us to believe that we might expect exomoons to be present around some known exoplanets. With present hardware and existing optical astronomy methods, we do not expect to be able to find exomoons for at least 10 years, and even then, it will be a hard task to detect them. Using data from the Exoplanet Orbit Database（EOD） we find stars with Jovian exoplanets within 50 light years. Most of them will be fully accessible by the new radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope（FAST）, under construction which is now in the test phase. We suggest radio astronomy based methods to search for possible exomoons around two exoplanets.
ISSN:1674-4527
2397-6209
DOI:10.1088/1674-4527/17/12/121