University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2017
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Description:
The radial velocity method has been used to discover hundreds of extrasolar planets in the past two decades. The continuous improvements in radial velocity precision have revealed several rocky planets in the habitable zones of low mass stars. However, a true Earth analogue has not yet been found because the precision needed for such a discovery is about one order of magnitude below what current state-of-the-art spectrographs can achieve. In order to find the radial velocity signal of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, several aspects of the radial velocity metho...