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Improving Transit Predictions of Known Exoplanets with TERMS

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

Transiting planet discoveries have largely been restricted to the short-period or low-periastron distance regimes due to the bias inherent in the geometric transit probability. Through the refinement of planetary orbital parameters, and hence reducing the size of transit windows, long-period planets become feasible targets for photometric follow-up. Here we describe the TERMS project that is monitoring these host stars at predicted transit times.

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@article{arxiv.1011.0439,
  title  = {Improving Transit Predictions of Known Exoplanets with TERMS},
  author = {Stephen R. Kane and David Ciardi and Debra Fischer and Greg Henry and Andrew Howard and Eric Jensen and Greg Laughlin and Suvrath Mahadevan and Kaspar von Braun and Jason Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0439},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in ASP Conf. Proceedings: "Detection and dynamics of transiting exoplanets" 2010, OHP, France (eds.: F. Bouchy, R.F. D{\i}az, C. Moutou)