Photometric searches for transiting planets: results and challenges
| dc.creator | Pont, Frederic | |
| dc.date | 2005-10-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:44:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:44:07Z | |
| dc.description | Ground-based photometric surveys have led to the discovery of six transiting exoplanets, five of which were detected by the OGLE survey. The FLAMES multi-object spectrograph on the VLT has permitted a very efficient follow-up of the OGLE transit candidates, characterising not only the 5 planets but also more than 50 systems producing similar photometric signatures -- mainly eclipsing binaires. The presence of these ubiquitous "impostors" is a challenge for transit surveys. Another difficulty is the presence of red noise in the photometry, which implies a much lower sensitivity to transiting planets than usually assumed. We outline a method to estimate how the red noise will affect the expected yield of photometric transit searches. | |
| dc.description | 12 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the meeting "Tenth anniversary of 51Peg b - status and prospects of hot Jupiter studies" at OHP, France, 22-26 August 2005 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510846 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510846 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/102668 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Photometric searches for transiting planets: results and challenges | |
| dc.type | text |