Comparative blind test of five planetary transit detection algorithms on realistic synthetic light curves
Because photometric surveys of exoplanet transits are very promising sources of future discoveries, many algorithms are being developed to detect transit signals in stellar light curves. This paper…
The BAST algorithm for transit detection
Context. The pioneer space mission for photometric exoplanet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12 000 stars in each of its fields of view. Transit detection algorithms are applied to derive…
The Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope System
- H. Rauer, J. Eislöffel, H. Voss
- Physics, Geology
- 2003
We describe a small telescope system, the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope (BEST), dedicated to the search for planetary transits of Jupiter‐sized planets on close‐in orbits. This system consists of…
AN M DWARF COMPANION TO AN F-TYPE STAR IN A YOUNG MAIN-SEQUENCE BINARY
- P. Eigmüller, J. Eislöffel, H. Voss
- Physics, Geology
- 4 February 2016
Only a few well characterized very low-mass M dwarfs are known today. Our understanding of M dwarfs is vital as these are the most common stars in our solar neighborhood. We aim to characterize the…
Developing a ground-based search system for transits of extrasolar planets
- H. Voss
- Physics, Geology
- 24 August 2006
The search for extrasolar planets is a relatively new field in astronomical and astrophysical sciences that was boosted by the first discovery of the exoplanet 51 Peg b in 1995 by radial velocity…
PRE-DISCOVERY OBSERVATIONS OF CoRoT-1b AND CoRoT-2b WITH THE BEST SURVEY
- H. Rauer, A. Erikson, H. Voss
- Physics, Geology
- 24 October 2009
The Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope (BEST) wide-angle telescope installed at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence and operated in remote control from Berlin by the Institut für Planetenforschung,…
A VARIABLE STAR CENSUS IN A PERSEUS FIELD
- T. Pasternacki, S. Csizmadia, H. Voss
- Physics, Geology
- 24 August 2011
The Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope is a small-aperture, wide-field telescope dedicated to time-series photometric observations. During an initial commissioning phase at the Thüringer…
Identification of Variable Stars in COROT's First Main Observing Field (LRc1)
The COROT space mission will monitor several target fields for up to 150 days to perform asteroseismology and to search for extrasolar planets by photometric transits. Variable stars in the target…
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