The PLANET microlensing campaign: Implications for planets around galactic disk and bulge stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
With round-the-clock monitoring of galactic bulge microlensing events, the PLANET experiment constrains the abundance and can yield the discovery of planets down to the mass of earth around galactic disk and bulge stars. Data taken until 1999 imply that less than 1/3 of bulge M-dwarfs are surrounded by jupiter-mass companions at orbital radii between 1 and 4 AU. The current rate of microlensing alerts allows 15-25 jupiters and 1-3 earths to be probed per year.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309609,
title = {The PLANET microlensing campaign: Implications for planets around galactic disk and bulge stars},
author = {M. Dominik and M. D. Albrow and J. -P. Beaulieu and J. A. R. Caldwell and A. Cassan and C. Coutures and J. Greenhill and K. Hill and P. Fouque and K. Horne and U. G. Jorgensen and S. Kane and D. Kubas and R. Martin and J. Menzies and K. R. Pollard and K. Sahu and J. Wambsganss and R. Watson and A. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309609},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, LaTeX with 1 EPS figure embedded, using newpasp.sty (supplied). To appear in the proceedings of the XIXth IAP colloquium "Extrasolar Planets: Today and Tomorrow" held in Paris, France, 2003 June 30 -- July 4, ASP Conf. Ser