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The investigation of exoplanets has so far concentrated simply on just finding them. Now, however, with over 500 known exoplanets, the emphasis within the subject is changing towards studying the details of the individual planets and trying to understand their properties as a group. Of course, efforts to discover new exoplanets will continue alongside these follow-up studies of already known exoplanets and one important aim must be to reduce the present in-built bias towards finding hot Jupiters.
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Kitchin, C. (2012). Where Do We Go from Here? – Future Approaches to Exoplanet Detection and Study. In: Exoplanets. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0644-0_11
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