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Tingley, Brandon
Bibliographical reference
Transiting Planets, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 253, p. 386-387
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2009
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Description
Gaia, an ESA cornerstone mission, will obtain of the order of 100
high-precision photometric observations over five years for tens of
millions of stars with V < 17. The vast number of red dwarfs in this
data set, with their correspondingly deep (high S/N) transits, makes it
worthwhile to explore the possibility of detecting transits in such
data. Searching for transits under these circumstances requires a very
different approach from that used for a normal, highly-sampled transit
survey if the search is to be performed in a reasonable amount of time.
It should be possible to identify a portion of the transiting Hot
Jupiter/M dwarf systems in the data set, if the photometry is as stable
and precise as specified by design. This same approach could be applied
to ground-based transit searches a transit survey targeted at red
dwarfs with Jupiter-sized companions.