Characterising stellar micro-variability for planetary transit searches

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 414, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1139-1152

  Aigrain, S ^a   Favata, F ^b   Gilmore, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Stars: activity; Stars: planetary systems; Sun: activity; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; ROTATION; SCINTILLATION; SUN;

HIGH MASS RATIOS; PLANETARY TRANSIT SEARCHES; STARS; TRANSIT SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 1042266115     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034039     Document Type: Article

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