Detecting planetary transits in the presence of stellar variability. Optimal filtering and the use of colour information

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 401, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 743-753

  Carpano, S ^a,c   Aigrain, S ^b   Favata, F ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methods: data analysis; Occultations; Planetary systems; Stars: microvariability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS;

PLANETARY SYSTEMS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0037389734     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030093     Document Type: Article

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