Detection of transiting Jovian exoplanets by Gaia photometry - expected yield
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2015-06-05 v1
Abstract
Several attempts have been made in the past to assess the expected number of exoplanetary transits that the Gaia space mission will detect. In this Letter we use the updated design of Gaia and its expected performance, and apply recent empirical statistical procedures to provide a new assessment. Depending on the extent of the follow-up effort that will be devoted, we expect Gaia to detect a few hundreds to a few thousands transiting exoplanets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.4725,
title = {Detection of transiting Jovian exoplanets by Gaia photometry - expected yield},
author = {Yifat Dzigan and Shay Zucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4725},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters