Pushing the precision limit of ground-based eclipse photometry

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dc.creatorGillon, M.
dc.creatorAnderson, D. R.
dc.creatorDemory, B. -O.
dc.creatorWilson, D. M.
dc.creatorHellier, C.
dc.creatorQueloz, D.
dc.creatorWaelkens, C.
dc.date2008-06-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:47:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:47:28Z
dc.descriptionUntil recently, it was considered by many that ground-based photometry could not reach the high cadence sub-mmag regime because of the presence of the atmosphere. Indeed, high frequency atmospheric noises (mainly scintillation) limit the precision that high SNR photometry can reach within small time bins. If one is ready to damage the sampling of his photometric time-series, binning the data (or using longer exposures) allows to get better errors, but the obtained precision will be finally limited by low frequency noises. To observe several times the same planetary eclipse and to fold the photometry with the orbital period is thus generally considered as the only option to get very well sampled and precise eclipse light curve from the ground. Nevertheless, we show here that reaching the sub-mmag sub-min regime for one eclipse is possible with a ground-based instrument. This has important implications for transiting planets characterization, secondary eclipses measurement and small planets detection from the ground.
dc.descriptionTransiting Planets Proceeding IAU Symposium No.253, 2008. 7 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4911
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4911
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/163892
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titlePushing the precision limit of ground-based eclipse photometry
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