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Exoplanet Transit Search at Dome C

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2006

F. Pont
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Genève, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
F. Bouchy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France
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Abstract

We study the potential impact of a photometric search for transiting exoplanets from Dome C. In the past year, four new transiting exoplanets have been found by ground-based surveys, including three detected by our follow-up of OGLE transit candidates with FLAMES/UVES on the VLT. Based on the experience of this survey, we have built a simulation to predict the expected number of transiting exoplanet detections from photometric searches. We apply these simulations to a possible survey based at Concordia. We find that the Antarctica location solves the two main limitations of ground-based transit surveys: the diurnal-cycle time sampling, and the hour-timescale systematic photometric variations. The expected numbers of detections are much larger than for other ground-based surveys. They show the high potential of such projects at Dome C, even with a small telescope.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2005

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