An Extrasolar Planet Transit Search in NGC 188

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #169.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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We present early results from an ongoing observational undergraduate research project aimed at locating extrasolar planets in the inner 8' of the open cluster NGC 188 by means of the transit detection method. Beginning in the summer of 2006 to the present, weather permitting, we have gathered optical CCD data two nights a week at the 0.9 m Red Buttes Observatory telescope located near Laramie, Wyoming. To date, we have accumulated 20 nights of data. Additionally, we are developing the final stages of our data reduction process which incorporates psf fitting and a relative photometry correction. We will be forming light curves of the stars in our field and expect to find many eclipsing binary star systems or other variable-type stars. Due to instrumentation restrictions, the only probable planetary transit candidate we will be ale to resolve is of the giant Jovian type. We anticipate having preliminary results by spring 2007. This research is supported by Wyoming NASA Space Grand Consortium.

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