Ground-Based Photometric Searches for Transiting Planets

Abstract

This paper reviews the basic technical characteristics of the ground-based photometric searches for transiting planets, and discusses a possible observational selection effect. I suggest that additional photometric observations of the already observed fields might discover new transiting planets with periods around 4-6 days. The set of known transiting planets support the intriguing correlation between the planetary mass and the orbital period suggested already in 2005.

Proceedings of IAU Symposium 253 "Transiting Planets", p. 11-19

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