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• ExoplanetRelated: The star’s wobble provides evidence for planets too small or distant to image directly.

• Doppler effectBroader topic: A planet’s gravity makes its star move, producing a detectable Doppler signal.

• AstrometryCompared with: It measures motion along the line of sight, complementing astrometry’s measurements across the sky.

• Orbital periodRelated: The repeating stellar motion yields the companion's orbital period.

• Transit methodCompared with: It detects a star’s reflex motion rather than the starlight blocked by a planet.

• Astronomical spectroscopyRelated: Precise spectral shifts reveal the gravitational pull of orbiting exoplanets.

• Light curveCompared with: Unlike a transit light curve, it detects a planet through the star's changing line-of-sight velocity.

• Hot JupiterRelated: A close giant planet often induces a detectable stellar wobble.

• Radial velocityBroader topic: Periodic stellar radial-velocity shifts can reveal an orbiting planet.

• Super-EarthRelated: The star's wobble can reveal a super-Earth's minimum mass.

• Alpha CentauriRelated: It revealed the gravitational signal used to discover Proxima Centauri b.

• Direct imaging of exoplanetsCompared with: Unlike imaging, it detects a planet through its gravitational effect on the host star.

• Red dwarfRelated: A planet can induce a detectable wobble in a low-mass red dwarf.

• Stellar kinematicsCompared with: It uses stellar radial velocities to infer orbiting planets rather than Galactic motion.

• Transmission spectroscopyCompared with: It establishes planetary masses through stellar motion, not atmospheric absorption during transit.

• Doppler spectroscopyBroader topic: It uses repeated Doppler measurements of a star to reveal an unseen orbiting planet.

• Gas giantRelated: It established the masses of many gas giants orbiting other stars.

• OrbitRelated: A companion’s orbit produces measurable back-and-forth motion in its star.

• Proxima CentauriRelated: This method revealed the recurring stellar wobble associated with Proxima b.

• TRAPPIST-1Related: It complements transit measurements, although TRAPPIST-1’s faintness makes this method difficult.

• Direct imagingCompared with: It detects a planet through its gravitational effect rather than separating its light from the star.

• Planetary transitCompared with: It measures a planet’s gravitational effect, complementing the size information from transits.

• StarRelated: A planet’s gravity makes its star move slightly toward and away from Earth.

• Stellar activityRelated: Activity-driven line shifts can imitate or obscure a planet’s gravitational signal.

• Terrestrial planetRelated: It estimates planetary masses, helping assess whether distant planets may be rocky.

• Transit timing variationCompared with: Unlike timing variations, it measures the star’s reflex motion directly.

• 51 Pegasi bRelated: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz detected 51 Pegasi b through its host star’s repeating Doppler shifts.

• Kepler's third lawRelated: The measured period helps infer the planet's orbit and, with stellar mass, its semimajor axis.

• Astronomical observationRelated: It detects a planet’s gravitational tug on its host star.

• HD 209458 bRelated: Radial-velocity measurements identified the planet before its transit was observed.

• Orbital migrationCompared with: It detects planets and constrains orbits rather than causing orbital migration.

• Planetary massRelated: A planet’s gravitational pull makes its star wobble, revealing a minimum mass.

• Planetary orbitRelated: The orbit sets the timing and amplitude of the star’s measured wobble.

• Planetary radiusRelated: Combined with transit radii, its mass estimates support density calculations.

• Planetary-mass objectRelated: It measures the minimum mass of many star-bound planetary-mass objects.

• Proxima Centauri bRelated: Proxima Centauri b was detected through the small periodic motion it induces in its host star.

• Stellar orbitRelated: Spectral shifts can trace a star’s line-of-sight orbital motion.

• TESSRelated: Radial-velocity follow-up can confirm TESS candidates and measure their masses.

• Exoplanet detectionRelated: The star’s reflex motion supplies evidence independent of a transit.

• Michel MayorBroader topic: This was the method that revealed the periodic stellar wobble caused by 51 Pegasi b.

• Didier QuelozRelated: Queloz used this method to detect 51 Pegasi's motion toward and away from Earth.

• Earth analogRelated: Stellar wobble can constrain a transiting planet's mass and therefore its density.

• Kepler-186fCompared with: Unlike transit data, this method could constrain Kepler-186f’s mass, but a precise mass is not established.

• AldebaranRelated: The proposed companion to Aldebaran was inferred from changes in its measured velocity.

• Substellar objectRelated: It measures the masses of some substellar companions through their gravitational effects.

• W. M. Keck ObservatoryRelated: Keck observations have used this method to identify planets through stellar wobble.

• Barnard's StarRelated: Astronomers use this method to search for planets tugging on Barnard's Star.

• Jupiter massRelated: It often yields a planet’s minimum mass in Jupiter-mass units.

• Epsilon EridaniRelated: The claimed giant planet was proposed from a signal in the star’s measured motion.

• Giant planetRelated: A giant planet's gravitational pull can induce a measurable stellar wobble.