Bibcode
Palle, E.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Casal, Estefanía
Bibliographical reference
Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, Germany, Edited by Roberto Saglia; EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 47, id.03007
Advertised on:
4
2013
Citations
0
Refereed citations
0
Description
As of today, hundreds of extrasolar planets have been discoverd, and
thousands of candidates are waiting for confirmation. Although we
already have discovered dozens of the least massive planets (the so
called super-Earths), only a few have been found to be orbiting low mass
stars, and only one that actually transist a bright M star. Here, we
propose to carry out a photometric search for transiting super-Earths in
the Habitable Zone of a large sample of very low-mass stars (M < 0.3
M⊙). These planets have a higher transit detection
probability, shorter orbital periods and produce larger radial velocity
amplitudes than those orbiting Solar type stars. The observing strategy
proposed for such a search would require a robotic network of 1-m class
telescopes, such as the LCOGT will provide.
Related projects
Exoplanets and Astrobiology
The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active fields in modern astrophysics. The growing number of new exoplanets discovered in recent years and the recent advance on the study of their atmospheres are not only providing new valuable
Enric
Pallé Bago