Search for possible exomoons with FAST telescope

TL;DR

This paper proposes using the FAST radio telescope to search for exomoons around nearby Jovian exoplanets, highlighting the potential of radio astronomy methods for future exomoon detection.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach of using the FAST radio telescope and radio astronomy techniques to detect exomoons around known exoplanets.

Findings

Identification of accessible exoplanet targets within 50 light years.

Proposal of radio astronomy methods for exomoon detection.

Potential for future exomoon discoveries with FAST.

Abstract

Our knowledge of the Solar System, encourages us to beleive that we might expect exomoons to be present around some of the known exoplanets. With present hardware and existing optical astronomy methods we shall not be able to find exomoons at least 10 years from now and even then, it will be a hard task to detect them. Using data from the Exoplanet Orbit Database (EOD) we find stars with Jovian exoplanets within 50 light years. Most of them will be fully accessible by the new radio telescope, The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) under construction, now in the test phase. We suggest radio astronomy based methods to search for possible exomoons around two exoplanets.