Bibcode
Ofir, Aviv; Alonso, Roi; Bonomo, Aldo Stefano; Carone, Ludmila; Carpano, Stefania; Samuel, Benjamin; Weingrill, Jörg; Aigrain, Suzanne; Auvergne, Michel; Baglin, Annie; Barge, Pierre; Borde, Pascal; Bouchy, Francois; Deeg, H. J.; Deleuil, Magali; Dvorak, Rudolf; Erikson, Anders; Mello, Sylvio Ferraz; Fridlund, Malcolm; Gillon, Michel; Guillot, Tristan; Hatzes, Artie; Jorda, Laurent; Lammer, Helmut; Leger, Alain; Llebaria, Antoine; Moutou, Claire; Ollivier, Marc; Päetzold, Martin; Queloz, Didier; Rauer, Heike; Rouan, Daniel; Schneider, Jean; Wuchterl, Guenther
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 404, Issue 1, pp. L99-L103.
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2010
Citations
34
Refereed citations
27
Description
Surveys for exoplanetary transits are usually limited not by photon
noise but rather by the amount of red noise in their data. In
particular, although the CoRoT space-based survey data are being
carefully scrutinized, significant new sources of systematic noises are
still being discovered. Recently, a magnitude-dependant systematic
effect was discovered in the CoRoT data by Mazeh et al. and a
phenomenological correction was proposed. Here we tie the observed
effect to a particular type of effect, and in the process generalize the
popular Sysrem algorithm to include external parameters in a
simultaneous solution with the unknown effects. We show that a
post-processing scheme based on this algorithm performs well and indeed
allows for the detection of new transit-like signals that were not
previously detected.
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