The Potential of the Timing Method to Detect Evolved Planetary Systems

Abstract

The timing method, using either stellar pulsations or eclipse timing of close binaries as a clock, is proving to be an efficient way to detect planets around stars that have evolved beyond the red giant branch. In this article we present a short review of the recent discoveries and we investigate the potential of the timing method using data both from ground-based facilities as well as from the Kepler and CoRoT space missions.

Part of PlanetsbeyondMS/2010 proceedings http://arxiv.org/html/1011.6606v1, Proc. of the workshop on "Planetary Systems beyond the Main Sequence" (Bamberg, 11-14 August 2010), AIPC in press (eds. S. Schuh, H. Drechsel and U. Heber), 15 pages, 5 figures

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