Open AccessChemical Patterns May Predict Stars That Host Giant Planets
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo127143
Subject(s) - exoplanet , stars , planet , astrobiology , abundance (ecology) , key (lock) , host (biology) , astronomy , physics , computer science , biology , ecology , computer security
Stars with giant planets tend to have a few key elements in abundance. A new algorithm used these patterns to predict hundreds of stars that will likely have exoplanets if we go looking for them.