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Exoplanet discovery and characterisation through robotic follow-up of microlensing events: Season 2010 results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Rachel A. Street ,
Yiannis Tsapras ,
Keith Horne ,
Colin Snodgrass ,
Daniel M. Bramich ,
Martin Dominik ,
Eric Hawkins ,
Paul Browne ,
Cheongho Han  and
Iain Steele
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Rachel A. Street
Affiliation:
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Goleta, CA 93117, U.S.A., email: rstreet@lcogt.net
Yiannis Tsapras
Affiliation:
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Goleta, CA 93117, U.S.A., email: rstreet@lcogt.net
Keith Horne
Affiliation:
SUPA, St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, U.K.
Colin Snodgrass
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Daniel M. Bramich
Affiliation:
ESO Headquarters, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Martin Dominik
Affiliation:
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Goleta, CA 93117, U.S.A., email: rstreet@lcogt.net
Eric Hawkins
Affiliation:
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Goleta, CA 93117, U.S.A., email: rstreet@lcogt.net
Paul Browne
Affiliation:
SUPA, St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, U.K.
Cheongho Han
Affiliation:
Institute for Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Republic of Korea
Iain Steele
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead, CH41 1LD, U.K.
Peter Dodds
Affiliation:
SUPA, St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, U.K.
Christine Liebig
Affiliation:
SUPA, St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, U.K.
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Abstract

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Microlensing searches for planets are sensitive to small, cold exoplanets from 1–6 AU from their host stars and therefore probe an important part of parameter space. Other techniques would require many years of observations, often from space, to detect similar systems. Microlensing events can be characterised from only ground-based observations over a relatively short (≤100d) timescales. LCOGT and SUPA/St Andrews are building a robotic global network of telescopes that will be well suited to follow these events. Here we present preliminary results of the Galactic Bulge observing season 2010 March–October.

Keywords

planetary systemstechniques: photometric
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S276: The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution , October 2010 , pp. 459 - 460
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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