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The potential to discover exoplanets by the disturbances that they cause in repetitive phenomena arises with four groups of objects – exoplanets having pulsars (neutron stars) as their host stars, exoplanets having regularly pulsating stars as hosts, exoplanets with eclipsing binary stars as their hosts and transiting exoplanets.
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In August 2011 the discovery of a companion to another pulsar (PSR J1719-1438) was announced. The companion has a mass just larger than that of Jupiter, but like the companion of XTE J0929-314 it is the remnant of what was once a star. The companion is probably a stripped down carbon and oxygen white dwarf. At the pressures found even near the white dwarf’s surface most of the carbon is likely to be in the form of diamond - even Elizabeth Taylor never sported a jewel this big!
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Kitchin, C. (2012). On the Track of Alien Planets – Timing (∼1.9% of All Exoplanet Primary Discoveries). In: Exoplanets. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0644-0_9
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