2 papers
astro-ph2003
Rationale for the use of color information on Eddington
P. Borde, A. Leger, D. Rouan +1
For the Eddington mission, the intrinsic stellar variability can be a major source of noise in the detection of extrasolar planets by the transit method. We derive that most detect…
astro-ph2001
Exo-planet detection with the COROT space mission. I. A multi-transit detection criterion
Pascal Borde', Daniel Rouan, Alain Leger
We present a detection criterion for exo-planets to be used with the space mission COROT. This criterion is based on the transit method, which suggests the observation of star dimm…