Searching With MEarth For Cool, Nearby, Transiting Super-Earths

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21532803b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #328.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.425

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The MEarth Project is currently using 8 automated 40 cm telescopes at Mt. Hopkins, AZ to monitor the brightness of 2,000 nearby M dwarfs with the goal of detecting transiting exoplanets as small as 2 Earth radii and in the habitable zones of these low-luminosity stars. The super-Earths MEarth will find will be amenable to atmospheric characterization via transit techniques with HST and JWST, because the planet-to-star contrast ratio is relatively large. I will present early results from the MEarth survey and discuss what MEarth has already found orbiting the most numerous stars in the Universe.

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