Observing exoplanets from Brazil: the first try

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Feb 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009iaus..253..454s&link_type=abstract

Transiting Planets, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 253, p. 454-455

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This project consists in mapping a 4-square-degree region searching for exoplanets using the transit method. This “mini-survey” will be the first use of the 16″ robotic telescope developed by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC-Brazil) and Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA/MCT-Brazil). The chosen region is over the Columba constellation and our first observations have shown that we have enough signal-to-noise ratio to search for transits on about 20,000 stars with ~13 < I < 16 mag, a magnitude range between the OGLE and HAT projects. In this star sample we expect to find about a dozen planets with transits duration of 1-3 hours and magnitude depth from 0.001 to 0.010 mag. As for other projects, all information will became public as a VO service.

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