A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C
We present "A STEP" (Antarctica Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets), a project dedicated to the search for planetary transits from Antartica. The project consists of a semi-automatic ~40 cm telescope equipped with a 16-million-pixel CCD installed at Dome C. The site offers crucial as...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:48971 2024-05-19T07:29:56+00:00 A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C Fressin, F. Guillot, T. Schmider, F.-X. Agabi, A. Moutou, C. Aigrain, S. Bouchy, F. Boer, M. Pont, F. Erikson, Anders Rauer, Heike A STEP team 2007 https://elib.dlr.de/48971/ unknown EDP Sciences Fressin, F. und Guillot, T. und Schmider, F.-X. und Agabi, A. und Moutou, C. und Aigrain, S. und Bouchy, F. und Boer, M. und Pont, F. und Erikson, Anders und Rauer, Heike und A STEP team, (2007) A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C. In: EAS Publications Series, 25, Seiten 225-232. EDP Sciences. 1st ARENA Conference on "Large Astronomical Infrastructures at CONCORDIA, prospects and constraints for Antarctic Optical/IR Astronomy", 2006-10-16 - 2006-10-19, Roscoff (France). doi:10.1051/eas:2007099 <https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007099>. ISBN 978-2-7598-0017-9. Extrasolare Planeten und Atmosphären Konferenzbeitrag NonPeerReviewed 2007 ftdlr https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007099 2024-04-25T00:10:51Z We present "A STEP" (Antarctica Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets), a project dedicated to the search for planetary transits from Antartica. The project consists of a semi-automatic ~40 cm telescope equipped with a 16-million-pixel CCD installed at Dome C. The site offers crucial assets for a ground-based exoplanet transit search: uninterrupted phase coverage, excellent weather, low air-mass variations and reduced scintillation. This system would be able to detect Pegasids transiting in front of stars as faint as magnitude sixteen and could also detect smaller planets in close-in period around brighter stars. This short term project is meant to be a photometric qualifyer for the site and the first stage of a massive detection campaign. A mid-term objective of 1000 detections for 2012 could be achieved either with many small telescopes or with a large Schmidt telescope with a large field of view. The project is relatively simple and cost-effective, and has the double purpose of qualifying the site and obtaining first-class scientific results. Our team is already familiar with transit detection with an automated telescope and cold temperature qualification. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica antartic* German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library |
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We present "A STEP" (Antarctica Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets), a project dedicated to the search for planetary transits from Antartica. The project consists of a semi-automatic ~40 cm telescope equipped with a 16-million-pixel CCD installed at Dome C. The site offers crucial assets for a ground-based exoplanet transit search: uninterrupted phase coverage, excellent weather, low air-mass variations and reduced scintillation. This system would be able to detect Pegasids transiting in front of stars as faint as magnitude sixteen and could also detect smaller planets in close-in period around brighter stars. This short term project is meant to be a photometric qualifyer for the site and the first stage of a massive detection campaign. A mid-term objective of 1000 detections for 2012 could be achieved either with many small telescopes or with a large Schmidt telescope with a large field of view. The project is relatively simple and cost-effective, and has the double purpose of qualifying the site and obtaining first-class scientific results. Our team is already familiar with transit detection with an automated telescope and cold temperature qualification. |
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Fressin, F. Guillot, T. Schmider, F.-X. Agabi, A. Moutou, C. Aigrain, S. Bouchy, F. Boer, M. Pont, F. Erikson, Anders Rauer, Heike A STEP team |
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Fressin, F. Guillot, T. Schmider, F.-X. Agabi, A. Moutou, C. Aigrain, S. Bouchy, F. Boer, M. Pont, F. Erikson, Anders Rauer, Heike A STEP team |
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A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C |
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A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C |
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A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C |
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step: towards a large photometric survey for exoplanets at dome c |
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Fressin, F. und Guillot, T. und Schmider, F.-X. und Agabi, A. und Moutou, C. und Aigrain, S. und Bouchy, F. und Boer, M. und Pont, F. und Erikson, Anders und Rauer, Heike und A STEP team, (2007) A STEP: Towards a Large Photometric Survey for Exoplanets at Dome C. In: EAS Publications Series, 25, Seiten 225-232. EDP Sciences. 1st ARENA Conference on "Large Astronomical Infrastructures at CONCORDIA, prospects and constraints for Antarctic Optical/IR Astronomy", 2006-10-16 - 2006-10-19, Roscoff (France). doi:10.1051/eas:2007099 <https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007099>. ISBN 978-2-7598-0017-9. |
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