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Title: Detecting false alarms in transit data from space: Rejection methods tested in Corot Blind Test 2

Authors: J. M. Almenara (1), H. J. Deeg (1), C. Regulo (1), R. Alonso (2,1) ((1) Inst. Astrofisica Canarias, (2) Lab. d'Astrophysique Marseille)
Abstract: Transit searches provide a large number of planet candidates. Before attempting follow-up observations, the best effort should be spent in classifying the light-curves, rejecting false alarms and selecting the most likely ones for real planets. A number of analysis tools has been developed with these objectives. Here, we apply such tools to 237 simulated multi-color light-curves from CoRoT Blind Test 2, which contain simulated planet transits and several configurations of impostors. Their comparison gives indications of the various tools' classification and false-alarm rejection capabilities. In order to arrive at the candidate identifications, we used an automated scheme of weighted punctuations assigned to the individual tests, which avoids that results from a single test dominate a candidate's classification.
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the PASP proceedings of "Transiting Extrasolar Planets Workshop" MPIA Heidelberg Germany, 25th-28th September 2006. Eds: Cristina Afonso, David Weldrake & Thomas Henning
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0612341v1

Submission history

From: Hans J. Deeg [view email]
[v1] Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:33:58 GMT (26kb)