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20 July 2010 Oukaimeden Observatory: detection of exoplanet HD 189733b by the transit method
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In this paper we report the detection and characterization of HD 189733b, the peculiarity of this exoplanet is that the flow of the target star is decreased significantly (~ 3%) during the transit. We determined the radius of the exoplanet 1.27 ± 0.03 RJ, the impact parameter 0.70 ± 0.02, and the inclination of the orbit 85.4 ± 0.1°. The transit of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b is already done using the larger telescope. In this study, we used during the observation a telescope of modest size.
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A. Daassou, Z. Benkhaldoun, Y. Elazhari, and M. Sabil "Oukaimeden Observatory: detection of exoplanet HD 189733b by the transit method", Proc. SPIE 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 77358A (20 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856978
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KEYWORDS
Stars

Exoplanets

Planets

Telescopes

Observatories

Target detection

Solar system

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