Blue Dots Team Transits Working Group Review

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2009-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0912.0887v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the proceedings (ASP Conf. Ser.) of the "Pathways Towards Habitable Planets" conference

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Transiting planet systems offer an unique opportunity to observationally constrain proposed models of the interiors (radius, composition) and atmospheres (chemistry, dynamics) of extrasolar planets. The spectacular successes of ground-based transit surveys (more than 60 transiting systems known to-date) and the host of multi-wavelength, spectro-photometric follow-up studies, carried out in particular by HST and Spitzer, have paved the way to the next generation of transit search projects, which are currently ongoing (CoRoT, Kepler), or planned. The possibility of detecting and characterizing transiting Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars appears tantalizingly close. In this contribution we briefly review the power of the transit technique for characterization of extrasolar planets, summarize the state of the art of both ground-based and space-borne transit search programs, and illustrate how the science of planetary transits fits within the Blue Dots perspective.

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