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ESPRESSO: The Spectrograph to Find Earth 2.0


alfa015

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I would like to talk about an instrument that has been sometimes overlooked: ESPRESSO.

As most of you probably know, ESPRESSO is the only current spectrograph able to detect Earth-sized planets.

I think it will be a key instrument for 2 reasons:

1- The majority of the most potentially habitable exoplanets were discovered with the radial velocity method.

2- Only 0.5 % of the Earth-like planets in the Milky Way could be detectable by using transit photometry.

Do you think we will find a nearby Earth 2.0 with ESPRESSO in 2020?

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No.  I think there are more variables than size that have to be taken in to account. 

Welcome to the forum.

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Welcome, you make me thirsty i want some source water now!

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Earth 2.0? what is this, an computer generated simulation like The Matrix, but with an upgrade.

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On 12/13/2019 at 10:05 PM, MissJatti said:

Earth 2.0? what is this, an computer generated simulation like The Matrix, but with an upgrade.

Earth 2.0 is the place we haven't ****ed up yet.

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