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Title:
Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Transit Search for Habitable Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs
Authors:
Nutzman, Philip; Charbonneau, David
Affiliation:
AA(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138; )
Publication:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 120, issue 865, pp.317-327 (PASP Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2008
Origin:
UCP
Keywords:
Extrasolar Planets
DOI:
10.1086/533420
Bibliographic Code:
2008PASP..120..317N

Abstract

By targeting nearby M dwarfs, a transit search using modest equipment is capable of discovering planets as small as 2 R in the habitable zones of late M dwarfs, and even stronger constraints for planets lying closer than the habitable zone. If the true occurrence rate of habitable planets is 10%, the expected yield would be 2.6 planets.
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