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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is providing precise time-series photometry for most star clusters in the solar neighborhood. Using the TESS images, we have begun a Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey (CDIPS), in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 L. G. Bouma , J. D. Hartman , W. Bhatti , J. N. Winn , G. Á. Bakos

We study the possibility to detect extrasolar planets in M31 through pixel-lensing observations. Using a Monte Carlo approach, we select the physical parameters of the binary lens system, a star hosting a planet, and we calculate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 G. Ingrosso , S. Calchi Novati , F. De Paolis , Ph. Jetzer , A. A. Nucita , A. F. Zakharov

The upcoming TESS mission will detect thousands of candidate transiting exoplanets. Those candidates require extensive follow-up observations to distinguish genuine planets from false positives, and to resolve the physical properties of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 David R. Ciardi , Joshua Pepper , Knicole Colon , Stephen R. Kane , With Input from the Astrophysical Community

We report results from a search for Galactic high-mass eclipsing binaries. The photometric monitoring campaign was performed in Sloan $r$ and $i$ with the robotic twin refractor RoBoTT at the Universit\"atssternwarte Bochum in Chile and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 F. Pozo Nuñez , R. Chini , A. Barr Domínguez , Ch. Fein , M. Hackstein , Pietrzyński , Grzegorz , M. Murphy

The transit method allows the detection and characterization of planetary systems by analyzing stellar light curves. Convolutional neural networks appear to offer a viable solution for automating these analyses. In this research, two 1D…

We provide the catalogue of all transit-like features, including false alarms, detected by the CoRoT exoplanet teams in the 177 454 light curves of the mission. All these detections have been re-analysed with the same softwares so that to…

In the effort to characterize the masses, radii, and atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets, there is an urgent need to find examples of such planets transiting nearby M dwarfs. The MEarth Project is an ongoing effort to do so, as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zachory K. Berta , Jonathan Irwin , David Charbonneau , Christopher J. Burke , Emilio E. Falco

We present time series photometry and constraints on additional planets in five of the exoplanetary systems studied by the EPOCh (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization) component of the NASA EPOXI mission: HAT-P-4, TrES-3,…

A large number of direct imaging surveys for exoplanets have been performed in recent years, yielding the first directly imaged planets and providing constraints on the prevalence and distribution of wide planetary systems. However, like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Mariangela Bonavita , Silvano Desidera , Christian Thalmann , Markus Janson , Arthur Vigan , Gael Chauvin , Justine Lannier

The Wide Angle Search for Planets prototype (WASP0) is a wide-field instrument used to search for extra-solar planets via the transit method. Here we present the results of a monitoring program which targeted a 9-degree field in Draco.…

The near-term search for life beyond the solar system currently focuses on transiting planets orbiting small M dwarfs, and the challenges of detecting signs of life in their atmospheres. However, planets orbiting white dwarfs (WDs) would…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-18 Lisa Kaltenegger , Ryan J. MacDonald , Thea Kozakis , Nikole K. Lewis , Eric E. Mamajek , Jonathan C. McDowell , Andrew Vanderburg

We implement a search for exoplanets in campaigns zero through eight (C0-8) of the K2 extension of the Kepler spacecraft. We apply a modified version of the QATS planet search algorithm to K2 light curves produced by the EVEREST pipeline,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Ethan Kruse , Eric Agol , Rodrigo Luger , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~85% of the sky throughout its two-year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

The addition of an external starshade to the {\it Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} will enable the direct imaging of Earth-radius planets orbiting at $\sim$1 AU. Classification of any detected planets as Earth-like requires both…

We present thirteen new transit light curves for the WASP-1 b exoplanet. Observations were acquired with 0.5 - 1.2-m telescopes between 2007 and 2013. Our homogeneous analysis, which also includes the literature data, results in determining…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 G. Maciejewski , J. Ohlert , D. Dimitrov , D. Puchalski , J. Nedoroščík , M. Vaňko , C. Marka , S. Baar , St. Raetz , M. Seeliger , R. Neuhäuser

Transiting planet systems offer an unique opportunity to observationally constrain proposed models of the interiors (radius, composition) and atmospheres (chemistry, dynamics) of extrasolar planets. The spectacular successes of ground-based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 A. Sozzetti , C. Afonso , R. Alonso , D. L. Blank , C. Catala , H. Deeg , J. L. Grenfell , C. Hellier , D. W. Latham , D. Minniti , F. Pont , H. Rauer

We present a uniform assessment of existing near-infrared Spitzer Space Telescope observations of planet-bearing stars. Using a simple four-parameter blackbody thermal model, we analyze stars for which photometry in at least one of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Arthur D. Adams , Gregory Laughlin

The results of an adaptive optics survey of exoplanet host stars for stellar companions is presented. We used the AEOS Telescope and its adaptive optics system to collect deep images of the stars in $I$-band. Sixty-two exoplanet host stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lewis C. Roberts , Nils H. Turner , Theo A. ten Brummelaar , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

Photometric surveys such as Kepler have the precision to identify exoplanet and eclipsing binary candidates from only a single transit. K2, with its 75d campaign duration, is ideally suited to detect significant numbers of single-eclipsing…