The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Extra Solar Planets Geoff Bower
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Radial Velocity Detection of Exoplanets
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Exoplanet Statistics from Radial Velocity Variations
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Transits HD Henry et al 1999
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007
Requirements for Transit Detection of Earth Photometric sensitivity ~ 10^-5 Nstars >> 10^3 Time resolution ~ hours Duration ~ years Continuous viewing
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 TrES Transiting Extrasolar Planet Search 3 x 10 cm telescopes 6 x 6 deg FOV V< 16 mag mag in 10 minutes
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 TrES-2 Planet in Kepler Field T=2.5 days M=1.3 MJup R=1.2 MJup O’Donovan et al 2006
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 All Transiting Planets Charbonneau et al 2006
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 TreS-1 HD Star spot causes bump
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Scintillation Noise TrES Dunham et al 2004 Dravins et al 1997 < 1sec
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Kepler
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Kepler Observing Program 4 years Continuous observing 100 square degrees 1.4m mirror/0.95 m corrector 2” pixels 42 x 1024 x 2200 pixels Photometry for 100,00 stars
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Photometry for 100,000 Stars Subset of pixels selected from photometry Integrated for 15 minutes Smaller subset with 1 minute integrations 10^7 measurements/day x ~ pixels/star – GB/day
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Poisson Noise ~ 1/sqrt(Nphotons) Poisson noise sets mirror size Stellar variability is the big unknown and factor to be controlled
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Basri et al ,000 stars brighter than 15 th mag
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Most Stars Are Inactive
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Solar Variability
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Hall et al 2007
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Stellar Variability
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Variability Limits on Planet Size
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Simulated Transit Matched filter search
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Semi-major axis 1500 Earth mass planets detected in first year 4500 in four years Assuming 3 terrestrial planets/star
The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Planet Detection Validation 7 sigma detection (total) in >=4 transits Period constant to 10 ppm from at least 3 transits Duration, depth, shape consistent Star centroid the same in and out of transit –Reject background eclipsing star Radial velocity follow-up consistent High resolution imaging