The Exoplanet Handbook, Second Edition (2018): Detection Methods


The following files are provided:

detection-methods-figure1.1-20180101.pdf

This diagram of detection methods represents the discovery status as a function of discovery method as of the end of 2017, and appears as Figure 1.1.

detection-methods-figure1.1-20190101.pdf

This version is updated to show the discovery status as of the end of 2018.

detection-methods-figure1.1-20200101.pdf

This version is updated to show the discovery status as of the end of 2019.

Numbers have largely been extracted from the online NASA Exoplanet Archive, including their statistics according to planet radius for transiting systems


Michael Perryman (mac.perryman(at)gmail.com): 29 January 2020