3 papers
astro-ph.EP2011
Venus transit 2004: Illustrating the capability of exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
P. Hedelt, R. Alonso, T. Brown +6
The transit of Venus in 2004 offered the rare possibility to remotely sense a well-known planetary atmosphere using ground-based observations for absorption spectroscopy. Transmiss…
astro-ph2002
The EXPLORE Project: A Deep Search for Transiting Extra-Solar Planets
H. K. C. Yee, G. Mallen-Ornelas, S. Seager +5
Searching for transits provides a very promising technique for finding close-in extra-solar planets. Transiting planets present the advantage of allowing one to determine physical…
astro-ph2002
The EXPLORE Project I: A Deep Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets
G. Mallen-Ornelas, S. Seager, H. K. C. Yee +4
(Abridged) We discuss the design considerations of the EXPLORE (EXtra-solar PLanet Occultation REsearch) project, a series of transiting planet searches using 4-m-class telescopes…