Welcome to our video 2A in the "Exoplanet Detection" series! This video explores the RV equation, as part of the Radial Velocities section.

In this video, we are going to use the results derived in the Celestrial Mechanics section (videos 1A-1E) to obtain a formula for how a star's line of sight velocity changes in response to an orbiting planet - a formula which ultimately sits at the heart of all modern software used to detect exoplanets with radial velocities.

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Video materials used:
► Exoplanet animation 1, credit ESO/L. Calçada: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso...
► Kepler population figure taken from Batalha (2014): https://www.pnas.org/content/111/35/1...

References and further reading:
► Murray & Correia (2010), "Keplerian Orbits and Dynamics of Exoplanets", Exoplanets, eds. S. Seager: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1738
► Struve (1952), "Proposal for a project of high-precision stellar radial velocity work", The Observatory, 72, 199: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1952Ob...

Answers to the takeaway slide questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ISl...