Possible Transiting Planet Candidates from the Explore Project

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...201.9604m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #96.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1263

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Planet transit searches promise to be the next big step forward in short-period extrasolar planet detection and characterization. Every transiting planet discovered will have a measured radius, and radial velocity observations will lead to an absolute mass measurement (since orbital inclination is known). Transiting planets can be discovered around distant stars and in a variety of stellar environments. Many transit searches are now ongoing. The EXPLORE Project is a series of transit searches using wide-field CCD mosaic cameras on 4m-class telescopes, with radial velocity follow-up of transit candidates done using 8m-class telescopes. We continuously monitor a Galactic plane field for as long as 18 consecutive nights with 3-minute time sampling, and perform 0.2-1 tens of thousands of stars in our field. We have a pipeline to completely reduce the data in a few weeks after the imaging observations, which allows same-semester radial-velocity follow-up observations. We present results from our 2001 and 2002 observing campaigns at CTIO, CFHT, and KPNO, and show transit candidates for which radial velocity follow-up has been done.

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