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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Astron. Space Sci.
Sec. Exoplanets
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspas.2024.1400032

Infrared-Radio-follow-up Observations for Detection of the Magnetic Radio Emission of Extra Solar Planets: A New Window to Detect Exoplanets

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States
  • 2 University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, United States

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    There are several methods for indirectly detecting exoplanets, such as transit, radial velocity, astrometry, and the conventional gravitational microlensing approach. These methods rely on observing the effects of exoplanets on the emission or motion of observed stars. All these techniques have focused on the optical or infrared domains. However, an alternative method for exoplanet detection via microlensing events involves planets orbiting the source star, creating a binary source system. In this study, we explore a novel approach to detecting and studying exoplanets exclusively through their radio emissions resulting from magnetospheric processes.We propose utilizing the Roman telescope as a survey observer to detect microlensing events.Subsequently, we investigate the potential for detecting planetary radio signals through follow-up observations of these microlensing events in the radio band using the SKA telescope. This method is viable due to the comparable radio emission levels of exoplanets and their parent stars, unlike optical and infrared emissions. We conduct a Monte Carlo simulation to replicate the observations by the Nancy Roman Telescope, followed by a follow-up observation in radio frequencies using the SKA telescope. We determine that approximately 1317 exoplanets exhibit detectable signals by the SKA telescope during the 7-season observations by the Nancy Roman Telescope. This result indicates that such a method cannot only facilitate the direct detection of exoplanets but also enable the measurement of their magnetic field strength through analysis of their radio emissions.

    Keywords: Planetary radio emissions, Exoplanet detection, Nancy Roman Telescope, SKA1-low, Microlensing

    Received: 12 Mar 2024; Accepted: 06 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bagheri, Lopez and Shahmoradi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Fatemeh Bagheri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States

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