Searching for Planetary Transits in the Field of Open Cluster NGC 6819 - I

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2003-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302076v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 7 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06388.x

We present results from our survey for planetary transits in the field of the intermediate age (~2.5 Gyr), metal-rich ([Fe/H]~+0.07) open cluster NGC 6819. We have obtained high-precision time-series photometry for over 38,000 stars in this field and have developed an effective matched-filter algorithm to search for photometric transits. This algorithm identified 8 candidate stars showing multiple transit-like events, plus 3 stars with single eclipses. On closer inspection, while most are shown to be low mass stellar binaries, some of these events could be due to brown dwarf companions. The data for one of the single-transit candidates indicates a minimum radius for the companion similar to that of HD 209458b.

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