Bibcode
Kovács, Gábor; Hodgkin, S.; Sipőcz, B.; Pinfield, D.; Barrado, D.; Birkby, J.; Cappetta, M.; Cruz, P.; Koppenhoefer, J.; Martín, E.L.; Murgas, F.; Nefs, B.; Saglia, R.; Zendejas, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, Germany, Edited by Roberto Saglia; EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 47, id.01002
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2013
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
The WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS) is a near-infrared transit survey running
on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). We conduct Monte Carlo
transit injection and detection simulations for short period (<10
day) Jupiter-sized planets to characterize the sensitivity of the
survey. We investigate the recovery rate as a function of period and
magnitude in 2 hypothetical star-planet cases: M0-2 + hot Jupiter, M2-4
+ hot Jupiter. We find that the WTS lightcurves are very sensitive to
the presence of Jupiter-sized short-period transiting planets around M
dwarfs. The non-detection of a hot-Jupiter around an M dwarf by the
WFCAM Transit Survey allows us to place a firm upper limit of 1.9 per
cent (at 95 per cent confidence) on the planet occurrence rate.