Exoplanet Other

Professor Seager has worked on a variety of other topics in exoplanets.

One of Prof. Seager’s favorite papers is about how to extract information from a transit light curve, by recognizing that there are five equations and five unknowns for a circular orbit. Surprisingly, a star’s density can be measured from the planet transit light curve. This work spawned became highly relevant after the Kepler space telescope was launched, providing the high-precision photometry needed for the applications described in this paper.

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