SETI public: Planet Hunting in the Draco Field

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Paper: astro-ph/0510012
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:19:14 GMT (809kb)

Title: Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets Prototype (WASP0) III:
Planet Hunting in the Draco Field

Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Andrew Collier Cameron, Keith Horne, David James,
T. A. Lister, Don L. Pollacco, Rachel A. Street, Yiannis Tsapras

Categories: astro-ph

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures (some degraded to fit file size limits),
Accepted for publication in MNRAS
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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. WASP0 monitored 35,000 field stars for two consecutive months.
Analysis of the lightcurves resulted in the detection of 11 multi-transit
candidates and 3 single-transit candidates, two of which we recommend for
further follow-up. Monte-Carlo simulations matching the observing parameters
estimate the expected number of transit candidates from this survey. A
comparison of the expected number with the number of candidates detected is
used to discuss limits on planetary companions to field stars.

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