Session 5. Extra-solar Planets: Dynamics and Detection

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: W.D. Cochran, W.J. Borucki, Monday, October 11, 1999, 10:30am-12:00noon, Sala Astrolabio Kursaal

5.01 Extra-solar Planetary Systems: New Discoveries (Invited)

M. Mayor, S. Udry (Geneva Observatory), D. Queloz (JPL, Pasadena)

5.02 The Wobble Method of Extrasolar Planets Detection Revisited

J. Schneider (CNRS - Observatoire de Paris)

5.03 End-to-End Test of Kepler Mission Concept

W. J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center), E. T. Dunham (Lowell Observatory), D. G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Center), J. M. Jenkins (SETI Institute), F. Witteborn (none)

5.04 Detecting Planetary Transits Against Stellar Variability

J.M. Jenkins (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), W.J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center), J.L. Mena-Werth (University of Nebraska)

5.05 Hubble Space Telescope Parallel Observations Supporting the Kepler Mission

J. Caldwell (York University), W. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center)

5.06 Statistics of Low-Mass Companions to Stars: Implicatons for Their Origin

D.C. Black, T.F. Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute)

5.07 On the Eccentricities of Extrasolar Planets

F. Marzari (Univ. di Padova and Planetary Science Institute), S. J. Weidenschilling (Planetary Science Institute)

5.08 On the Stability of the Planetary System Orbiting \upsilon Andromedae

E.J. Rivera (SUNY, Stony Brook; NASA Ames), J.J. Lissauer (NASA Ames)