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Astrophysics
Title: Using All-Sky Surveys to Find Planetary Transits
(Submitted on 1 Aug 2002 (v1), last revised 10 Dec 2003 (this version, v5))
Abstract: Transits of bright stars offer a unique opportunity to study detailed properties of extrasolar planets that cannot be determined through radial-velocity observations. We propose a new technique to find such systems using all-sky small-aperture transit surveys. We derive a general formula for the number of stars that can be probed for such systems as a function of the characteristics of the star, the planet, and the survey. We use this formula to derive the optimal telescope design for finding transits of bright stars: a 5 cm ``telescope'' with a 4k x 4k camera.
Submission history
From: Joshua Pepper [view email][v1] Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:23:56 GMT (11kb)
[v2] Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:26:41 GMT (11kb)
[v3] Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:04:02 GMT (14kb)
[v4] Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:03:22 GMT (20kb)
[v5] Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:31:10 GMT (24kb)