A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940

Ben Hood; Andrew Collier Cameron; Stephen R Kane; DM Bramich; Keith Douglas Horne; Rachel A Street; IA Bond; AJ Penny; Y Tsapras; A Quirrenbach; N Safizadeh; D Mitchell; J Cooke

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A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940

Ben Hood, Andrew Collier Cameron, Stephen R Kane, DM Bramich, Keith Douglas Horne, Rachel A Street, IA Bond, AJ Penny, Y Tsapras, A Quirrenbach, N Safizadeh, D Mitchell, J Cooke

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We present results of our survey for planetary transits in the field of NGC 6940. We think nearly all of our observed stars are field stars. We have obtained high precision (similar to 3-10 mmag at the bright end) photometric observations of similar to 50 000 stars spanning 18 nights in an attempt to identify low-amplitude and short-period transit events. We have used a matched filter analysis to identify 14 stars that show multiple events and four stars that show single transits. Of these 18 candidates, we have identified two that should be further researched. However, none of the candidates is a convincing hot Jupiter.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	791-800
Number of pages	10
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	360
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09104.x
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2005

Keywords

methods : data analysis
planetary systems
stars : variables : other
open clusters and associations : individual : NGC 6940
IMAGE SUBTRACTION
STAR-CLUSTERS
PHOTOMETRY
TELESCOPE
FIELD

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A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940

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