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In Searches for Planets Orbiting Stars Other Than the Sun

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In searches for planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, what is the astrometric method?


A) searching for tiny "bumps" on images of a star, due to the light from a planet located close to the star
B) searching for tiny displacements of the infrared image of a star compared with its optical image, caused by the presence of planets that are cool and emit primarily in the infrared
C) searching for tiny wobbles in the position of a star, due to the gravitational pull of a planet orbiting around it
D) searching for tiny wobbles in the positions of absorption lines in a star's spectrum, caused by radial velocity variations of the star as the result of a planet orbiting around it

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