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Potential of Photometric Searches for Transiting Planets
Frederic Pont, the ISSI Working Group on Transiting Planets
Many ground-based photometric surveys are now under way, and five of them have been successful at detecting transiting exoplanets. Nevertheless, detecting transiting planets has tu…
The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters
Suzanne Aigrain, Simon Hodgkin, Jonathan Irwin +5
The Monitor project is a photometric monitoring survey of nine young (1-200Myr) clusters in the solar neighbourhood to search for eclipses by very low mass stars and brown dwarfs a…
The `666' collaboration on OGLE transits: I. Accurate radius of the planets OGLE-TR-10b and OGLE-TR-56b with VLT deconvolution photometry
Frederic Pont, Claire Moutou, Michael Gillon +14
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. He…
A fast hybrid algorithm for exoplanetary transit searches
A. Collier Cameron, D. Pollacco, R. A. Street +22
We present a fast and efficient hybrid algorithm for selecting exoplanetary candidates from wide-field transit surveys. Our method is based on the widely-used SysRem and Box Least-…
On the Age of Stars Harboring Transiting Planets
C. Melo, N. C. Santos, F. Pont +5
Results of photometric surveys have brought to light the existence of a population of giant planets orbiting their host stars even closer than the hot Jupiters (HJ), with orbital p…
WASP-1b and WASP-2b: Two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE
A. Collier Cameron, F. Bouchy, G. Hebrard +36
We have detected low-amplitude radial-velocity variations in two stars, USNO-B1.0 1219-0005465 (GSC 02265-00107 = WASP-1) and USNO-B1.0 0964-0543604 (GSC 00522-01199 = WASP-2). Bot…
The effect of red noise on planetary transit detection
Frederic Pont, Shay Zucker, Didier Queloz
Since the discovery of short-period exoplanets a decade ago, photometric surveys have been recognized as a feasible method to detect transiting hot Jupiters. Many transit surveys a…
High accuracy transit photometry of the planet OGLE-TR-113b with a new deconvolution-based method
M. Gillon, F. Pont, C. Moutou +4
A high accuracy photometry algorithm is needed to take full advantage of the potential of the transit method for the characterization of exoplanets, especially in deep crowded fiel…
A correlation between the heavy element content of transiting extrasolar planets and the metallicity of their parent stars
Tristan Guillot, Nuno C. Santos, Frédéric Pont +3
Nine extrasolar planets with masses between 110 and 430M are known to transit their star. The knowledge of their masses and radii allows an estimate of their composition, but uncer…
Refined parameters of the planet orbiting HD 189733
G. A. Bakos, H. Knutson, F. Pont +13
We report on the BVRI multi-band follow-up photometry of the transiting extrasolar planet HD 189733b. We revise the transit parameters and find planetary radius RP = 1.154+/- 0.032…
High resolution spectroscopy of stars with transiting planets. The cases of OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, and TrES-1
N. C Santos, F. Pont, C. Melo +7
Context: During the past years photometric surveys, later complemented by follow-up radial-velocity measurements, have revealed the presence of several new extra-solar transiting p…