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Characterizing Planet Host Stars: Introduction

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If one is concerned about measuring accurate properties of exoplanets, one will need to measure stellar properties such as stellar mass, radius, mean density, surface effective temperature, distance, and age. In this chapter, a number of basic properties for exoplanets are listed, and their dependence on fundamental stellar properties is discussed. The exoplanets with the most accurate properties are those that are transiting, where we have detected radial velocity signals and where we have good stellar parameters, e.g., via asteroseismic analysis of stellar oscillations.

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Funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre is provided by the Danish National Research Foundation (Grant DNRF106).

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  1. Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Hans Kjeldsen

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  1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , La Laguna, Spain

    Hans J. Deeg

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    Juan Antonio Belmonte

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    Hans Kjeldsen

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Kjeldsen, H. (2018). Characterizing Planet Host Stars: Introduction. In: Deeg, H., Belmonte, J. (eds) Handbook of Exoplanets . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3_174-1

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