From 72 papers on this topic published since 2021, kept out of the 201 most relevant results of our searches on OpenAlex. 12 preprints counted once with their published versions. Relevance was checked for the 120 closest papers only.

This is a sample of the field, not a census: a broad topic has many more papers than a map reads. Narrow the topic or edit the searches to map one part of it well.

The 4 searches run on OpenAlex · An overview of the field
  • exomoon detection methods — OpenAlex finds 340 papers
  • interferometric astrometry exomoons — OpenAlex finds 26 papers
  • exomoon transit timing duration variations — OpenAlex finds 100 papers
  • exomoon light curves observational limits — OpenAlex finds 189 papers

The landscape

Les approches par transits relient la modélisation des courbes de lumière et des TTV/TDV aux recherches de candidats, mais rencontrent des limites liées à la petite taille des lunes, au bruit systématique, aux causes alternatives des variations et à la représentation de systèmes complexes. L'astrométrie interférométrique ou relative et les vitesses radiales explorent les déplacements des planètes observables directement, tandis que les signatures thermiques, les éclipses et la radio exploitent d'autres propriétés physiques dont dépend leur détectabilité. Les microlentilles ouvrent la recherche aux satellites de planètes éloignées ou libres, avec notamment des effets de source finie à prendre en compte, et les analyses de stabilité complètent ces méthodes en distinguant les configurations dynamiquement possibles de celles accessibles aux observations.

People

Ordered by the papers of the map they sign, counting more those they sign first, last or as corresponding author. Author order says who did what in many fields, not who leads a team; it is not used in alphabetical author lists, nor after the first fifteen authors of a large collaboration.

Institutions

These are publication affiliations, not identified research teams. A national organization such as CNRS can include several independent laboratories.

Ordered by the papers one of their authors signs first, last or as corresponding author, then by their share of the papers: a paper signed by four institutions counts a quarter for each, so a large collaboration does not make each of its members look central.

Approaches

The papers are grouped by the similarity of their titles and abstracts; an AI names each group from its papers. A paper is in one group only.

Papers

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