Astrophysical false positives in exoplanet transit surveys: why do we need bright stars ?

Astrophysical false positives that mimic planetary transit are one of the main limitation to exoplanet transit surveys. In this proceeding, we review the issue of the false positive in transit survey and the possible complementary observations to constrain their presence. We also review the false-positive rate of both Kepler and CoRoT missions and present the basics of the planet-validation technique. Finally, we discuss the interest of observing bright stars, as PLATO 2.0 and TESS will do, in the context of the false positives. According to simulations with the Besan\c{c}on galactic model, we find that PLATO 2.0 is expected to have less background false positives than Kepler, and thus an even lower false-positive rate.

A. Santerne, R. F. Diaz, J.-M. Almenara, A. Lethuillier, M. Deleuil, C. Moutou (Submitted on 8 Oct 2013)

Comments: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

Cite as: arXiv:1310.2133 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:1310.2133v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version) 

Submission history From: Alexandre Santerne [v1] Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:33:35 GMT (469kb,D)