Improving transit detection with collective light curves information

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5905, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Guterman, P ^a   Barge, P ^a   Llebaria, A ^a   Quentin, C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Corot; Pattern analysis; Stellar photometry; Survey; Transit detection

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICS; PLANETS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COROT; PATTERN ANALYSIS; STELLAR PHOTOMETRY; SURVEY; TRANSIT DETECTION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 29844439452     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.616396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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