The Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES): A Review

Alonso, R.; Brown, T. M.; Charbonneau, D.; Dunham, E. W.; Belmonte, J. A.; Deeg, H. J.; Fernández, J. M.; Latham, D. W.; Mandushev, G.; O'Donovan, F. T.; Rabus, M.; Torres, G.
Bibliographical reference

Transiting Extrapolar Planets Workshop ASP Conference Series, Vol. 366, Proceedings of the conference held 25-28 September, 2006 at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Edited by C. Afonso, D. Weldrake, and Th. Henning. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.13

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2007
Number of authors
12
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0
Citations
19
Refereed citations
17
Description
The TrES project is designed to search for exoplanetary transits using three wide-field optical telescopes of 10-cm in diameter, in three different observatories. We describe the instruments and strategies used by the team, which has been working as a network since 2003. We summarize the major findings and difficulties faced during these years, which include the discovery of two transiting planets, a pair of eclipsing M stars, and many configurations of stars that mimic the signal of transiting planets.