Bibcode
Pont, F.; Aigrain, S.; Bakos, G.; Brown, T.; Collier Cameron, A.; Deeg, H.; Erikson, A.; Guillot, T.; Horne, K.; Lecavalier, A.; Moutou, C.; Rauer, H.; Queloz, D.; Seager, S.
Referencia bibliográfica
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.3
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2007
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Descripción
Many ground-based photometric surveys are now under way, and five of
them have been successful at detecting transiting exoplanets.
Nevertheless, detecting transiting planets has turned out to be much
more challenging than initially anticipated. Transit surveys have learnt
that an overwhelming number of false positives and confusion scenarios,
combined with an intermittent phase coverage and systematic residuals in
the photometry, could make ground-based surveys rather inefficient in
the detection of transiting planets. We have set up a working group on
transiting planets to confront the experience of the different surveys
and get a more complete understanding of these issues, in order to
improve the observing strategies and analysis schemes for ongoing
surveys, and to prepare for the coming Corot and Kepler space missions.
This contribution presents the current results of our working group.