Co-ordinated Follow-Up of Transiting Planet Candidates with Robotic Telescope Facilities

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Feb 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009iaus..253..412s&link_type=abstract

Transiting Planets, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 253, p. 412-415

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There are now several large photometric surveys scanning millions of stellar light-curves for signs of planetary transits. All produce large candidate lists with a high false alarm rate, so that further observations are required to confirm new detections. One such survey, SuperWASP, produced ~150 candidates during the 2007 2008 season. Here we describe our campaign to follow-up 86 of these candidates using the robotic facilities of Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the Tenagra-II robotic telescope in Arizona. The aim of these observations was to eliminate false positives as far as possible ahead of spectroscopic follow-up and to provide additional photometry to help characterise the surviving targets.

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