Detection of transiting Jovian exoplanets by Gaia photometry - expected yield

Abstract

Several attempts have been made in the past to assess the expected number of exoplanetary transits that the Gaia space mission will detect. In this Letter we use the updated design of Gaia and its expected performance, and apply recent empirical statistical procedures to provide a new assessment. Depending on the extent of the follow-up effort that will be devoted, we expect Gaia to detect a few hundreds to a few thousands transiting exoplanets.

13 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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