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Traub et al. 1996
Traub, W.A., Carleton, N.P. and Porro, I.L. (1996). A search technique for planets in nearby binary stars using a ground-based interferometer. Journal of Geophysical Research 101: doi: 10.1029/96JE00668. issn: 0148-0227.

A search for Jovian-type planets in 100 nearby binary stars could be carried out with the existing ground-based infrared-optical telescope array (IOTA) interferometer. We would study binaries with sufficiently great separation (25--50 AU; typical separation around 0.4 arcsec) that such a planet could be in a stable orbit about one member of the pair. The method is to measure the angular separation of stars in each binary, with a single-measurement accuracy sufficient to detect the amplitude of a Uranus orbiting one of the stars. The technique is based on an auxiliary device, the pupil-splitting interferometer (PSI), which substantially reduces systematic and random errors by converting a measurement of angular separation into a measurement of the differential optical delay between the two components of the binary. The program would be relatively economical, and could begin soon. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1996

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Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Instruments and techniques, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Orbital and rotational dynamics, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Origin and evolution
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