Topic

Transit photometry

Detecting and measuring planets and their companions from the dip in a star's brightness as a body passes in front of it, with the depth of the dip set by the body's cross-sectional area.

Current clusters

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NASA expects more than 1,000 wide-orbit planets from stars that briefly brighten

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, launched Aug. 30, 2026, will find planets in the brief brightening of background stars. That method reaches the cold, wide orbits current catalogs barely sample.

Publishers:theconversation.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption18
Hype gap+14
Incentives58
Confidence60

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Stacking 12 JWST transits pushes an exomoon search down to 0.1 Earth radii

David Kipping's preprint reports no moon larger than a tenth of Earth's radius around the temperate rocky planet LP 890-9 c. The point of the exercise is that averaging repeat visits removes the detector noise astronomers had treated as a hard floor.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence58