Recognition of the First Observational Evidence of an Extrasolar Planetary System

B. Zuckerman

(Submitted on 9 Oct 2014)

With 20-20 hindsight, it is now possible to say that the first observational indication — by any means — of the existence of an extrasolar planetary system came almost a century ago when van Maanen discovered and noted the spectrum of the nearest single white dwarf to Earth.

Comments: To appear in the 2015 PASP Conference Proceedings of the “19th European White Dwarf Workshop” (held 11-15 August 2014 in Montreal, Canada)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

Cite as: arXiv:1410.2575 [astro-ph.SR] (or arXiv:1410.2575v1 [astro-ph.SR] for this version)

Submission history

From: Benjamin Zuckerman  

[v1] Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:59:46 GMT (124kb,D)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2575