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Detectability of Earth-like Planets in Multi-Planet Systems: Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

W. A. Traub
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
C. Beichman
Affiliation:
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA
A. F. Boden
Affiliation:
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA
A. P. Boss
Affiliation:
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
S. Casertano
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
J. Catanzarite
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
D. Fischer
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
E. B. Ford
Affiliation:
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
A. Gould
Affiliation:
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
S. Halverson
Affiliation:
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
A. Howard
Affiliation:
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
S. Ida
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
N. J. Kasdin
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
G. P. Laughlin
Affiliation:
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
H. F. Levison
Affiliation:
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CA, USA
D. Lin
Affiliation:
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
V. Makarov
Affiliation:
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA
J. Marr
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
M. Muterspaugh
Affiliation:
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA
S. N. Raymond
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
D. Savransky
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
M. Shao
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
A. Sozzetti
Affiliation:
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomioco di Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy
C. Zhai
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Abstract


We ask if Earth-like planets (terrestrial mass and habitable-zone orbit) can be detected in multi-planet systems, using astrometric and radial velocity observations. We report here the preliminary results of double-blind calculations designed to answer this question.


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Research Article
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2010

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