Exoplanet Detection Techniques: Radial Velocity

arXiv:2609.29378 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/mzechmeister/serval

Terminology

• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 9× in this paper
• Metallicity — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayes Factor — 5× in this paper
• Active Regions — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 3× in this paper
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets — 2× in this paper
• Charge-Coupled Device — 2× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Root Mean Squared — 2× in this paper
• European Southern Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Exposure Time Calculator — 1× in this paper
• Gaussian Processes (GPs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Time Allocation Committee — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Progress report on the BEBOP search for circumbinary planets with radial velocities
• Exoplanet Demographics: Physical and Orbital Properties
• Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Working Group Final Report
• EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
• Earths within Reach: Evaluation of Strategies for Mitigating Solar Variability using 3.5 years of NEID Sun-as-a-Star Observations
• SPORES-HWO. II. Companion Mass Limits and Updated Planet Properties for 120 Future Exoplanet Imaging Targets from 35 yr of Precise Doppler Monitoring
• TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data
• High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization with the Keck and Thirty Meter Telescopes
• The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXIV. Occurrence, mass distribution and orbital properties of super-Earths and Neptune-mass planets
• The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs -- Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

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