Detecting Exomoons via Doppler Monitoring of Directly Imaged Exoplanets

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NASA Sagan Fellow. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Fulbright Fellow. If a moon is found to transit its planet, even more could be learned by observing the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect as the moon transits its host planet (Heller & Albrecht 2014). We thank Brendan Bowler, Cyndi Froning, Eric Gaidos, Adam Kraus, Caroline Morley, Sam Quinn, Aaron Rizzuto, and Joey Rodriguez for valuable conversations. We are indebted to the anonymous referee for a constructive report, which improved this paper. This work was performed in part under contract with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. This paper includes data collected by the Kepler mission. Funding for the Kepler mission is provided by the NASA Science Mission directorate. Facilities: ADS, CDS.