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Detectability of rocky planets with ELT infrared spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2006

E. L. Martín  and
Eike Guenther
E. L. Martín
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/Vía Láctea s/n, E-38200 La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain email: ege@iac.es University of Central Florida, Dept. of Physics, PO Box 162385, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA email: ege@physics.ucf.edu
Eike Guenther
Affiliation:
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany email: guenther@tls-tautenburg.de
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Abstract

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Brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars are likely to harbour planetary systems with rocky planets. We discuss the possibility of detecting them using accurate radial velocity measurements with a cross-dispersed high-resolution spectrograph coupled to a ground-based extremely large telescope.

Keywords

Stars: low massbrown dwarfsPlanets: exoplanetsTechniques: spectroscopic
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Symposium S232: Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes , November 2005 , pp. 373 - 375
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2006 International Astronomical Union