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Chapter 39, Problem 39.1CQ
In several cases, a nearby star has been found to have a huge planet orbiting about it, although light from the planet could not be seen separately from the starlight. Using the ideas of a system rotating about its center of mass and of the Doppler shift for light, explain how an astronomer could determine the presence of the invisible planet.
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