Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0605598

From: Jochen Eisl\"offel [view email]

Date (v1): Tue, 23 May 2006 19:49:30 GMT (291kb)
Date (revised v2): Tue, 23 May 2006 20:36:05 GMT (132kb)

Results from the Exoplanet Search Programmes with BEST and TEST

Authors: Jochen Eisloeffel (1), Artie P. Hatzes (1), Heike Rauer (2), Holger Voss (1), Anders Erikson (2), Philipp Eigmueller (1), Eike Guenther (1) ((1) Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, (2) Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt, Institut fuer Planetenforschung, Berlin-Adlershof)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, contributed paper to the "Solar and Stellar Physics Through Eclipses" conference, eds. O. Demircan, S.O. Selam, B. Albayrak (Turkey, March 2006)

Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS) has started to operate a small dedicated telescope - the Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) - searching for transits of extrasolar planets in photometric time series observations. In a joint effort with the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope (BEST) operated by the Institut fuer Planetenforschung of the "Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)" at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), France, two observing sites are used to optimise transit search. Here, we give a short overview of these systems and the data analysis. We describe a software pipeline that we have set up to identify transit events of extrasolar planets and variable stars in time series data from these and other telescopes, and report on some first results.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605598