Detectability of Terrestrial Planets in Multi-Planet Systems: Preliminary Report

Wesley A. Traub , Charles Beichman (1) , Andrew F. Boden , Alan P. Boss , Stefano Casertano , Joseph Catanzarite , Debra Fischer , Eric. B. Ford , Andrew Gould , Sam Halverson , Andrew Howard , Shigeru Ida (2) , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Gregory P. Laughlin , Harold F. Levison (3) , Douglas Lin , Valeri Makarov , James Marr , Matthew Muterspaugh , Sean N. Raymond (4, 5, 6, 7) , Dmitry Savransky , Michael Shao , Alessandro Sozzetti , Cengxing Zhai

1 NExScI - NASA ExoPlanet Science Institute
2 TITECH - Tokyo Institute of Technology [Tokyo]
3 Department of Space Studies [Boulder]
4 OASU - Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers
5 LAB - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac]
6 L3AB - Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux
7 UB - Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1

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.

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

Wesley A. Traub, Charles Beichman, Andrew F. Boden, Alan P. Boss, Stefano Casertano, et al.. Detectability of Terrestrial Planets in Multi-Planet Systems: Preliminary Report. EAS Publications Series, Volume 42, 2010, Toruń, Poland, 25-29 August, 2008 pp.191-199, Aug 2008, torun, Poland. pp.191-199, ⟨10.1051/eas/1042022⟩. ⟨hal-00542761⟩