Photometric Detection of Transits by Extrasolar Planets

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Apr 2000

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The Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, Proceedings of a Workshop held in Aarhus, Denmark, January 24

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Transit photometry provides an efficient way to detect and to study extrasolar planets. As the recent detection of transits in HD 209458 demonstrates, the intensity diminution as a giant planet crosses the disk of its star is about 1%, a signal that is easily large enough to detect using groundbased telescopes. With spaceborne photometers such as MONS, planets of the Earth's size or smaller might be detected. Most importantly, planets in transit can be studied in ways that other extrasolar planets cannot; in some cases it should be possible to derive fairly detailed information about the physical nature of the planets from these follow-up studies.

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