Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curves and a Method to Select the Best Planet Candidates for Mass Follow-up
Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0210076
From: Sara Seager <seager@dtm.ciw.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:56:19 GMT (11kb)
Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curves and a Method to Select the Best Planet Candidates for Mass Follow-up
Authors:
S. Seager (IAS and CIW DTM),
G. Mallen-Ornelas (Princeton and PUC)
Comments: 4 pages, to appear in ASP Conf. Ser., Scientific Frontiers on
Research of Extrasolar Planets, eds. D. Deming & S. Seager
A unique analytical solution of planet and star parameters can be derived
from an extrasolar planet transit light curve under a number of assumptions.
This analytical solution can be used to choose the best planet transit
candidates for radial velocity follow-up measurements, with or without a known
spectral type. In practice, high photometric precision (< 0.005 mag) and high
time sampling (< 5 minutes) are needed for this method. See Seager &
Mallen-Ornelas (2002) for full details.
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