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Question 2: You want to determine if there are any Kuiper Belt objects larger than Eris.

Part a: Describe the observational methods and analysis you would apply to search for them.

Part b: How might you determine if any candidate objects are larger than Eris? What observational data do you need for an object to estimate its radius?

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Part a: Describe the observational methods and analysis you would apply to search for them.

  In observational cosmology, there are various techniques created to look and break down the space questions throughout the years, as far back as Galileo Galilei turned a telescope towards the sky. For a great part of the history, practically the sum total of what perceptions have been in the visual range with the telescopes. In any case, presently we have infrared, radio, and high vitality (UV, x-beam, and gamma-beam) observational techniques. According to the NASA records, planets have so far been recognized by five noteworthy techniques; Radial speed (648 planets found so far with this strategy), Transit (2734planets), Direct imaging (44 planets), Gravitational microlensing (49 planets), and Astrometry (1 planet). As should be obvious the spiral speed (wobbling of stars and change in shading) and the travel (diming of light from a star) strategies would be the ones that are well on the way to enable us to discover the planet-sized items in space. Be that as it may, these strategies can unquestionably more proficiently recognize the tremendous planets circling different stars than the exoplanets of our own nearby planetary group. Indeed, even the immediate proof is extremely difficult to get for the exoplanets (Even however 'New Horizon' is making grand leaps forward). The best strategy presumably would be the utilization of Doppler Effect.

Part b: How might you determine if any candidate objects are larger than Eris? What observational data do you need for an object to estimate its radius?

  For deciding if the distinguished article is bigger than the Eris, the second biggest earth in our nearby planetary group up until this point, we need the measure the size of these planets. The size can more often than not be resolved separation and orbital period estimations. The mass of that article can be determined utilizing the mass-glow relationship. The proportion of attractive energy is likewise very urgent in these computations. Nonetheless, precision is constantly a question mark in such computations. Direct imaging would give the best approximations notwithstanding, they are difficult to acquire for such far off articles.