@inproceedings{0d5e3ce7513c457cad1db43650d4d906,
title = "Status and Prospects of Planetary Transit Searches: Hot Jupiters Galore",
abstract = "The first transiting extrasolar planet, orbiting HD 209458, was a Doppler wobble planet before its transits were identified with a 10 ern CCD camera. Wide-angle CCD cameras, by monitoring in parallel the light curves of tens of thousands of stars, should find hot Jupiter transits much faster than the Doppler wobble method. The discovery rate could easily rise by a factor 10. The sky holds perhaps 1000 hot Jupiters transiting stars brighter than V = 13. These are bright enough for follow-up radial velocity studies to measure planet masses to go along with the radii from the transit light curves. I derive scaling laws for the discovery potential of ground-based transit searches, and use these to assess over two dozen planetary transit surveys currently underway. The main challenge ties in calibrating small systematic errors that limit the accuracy of CCD photometry at milli-magnitude levels. Promising transit candidates have been reported by several groups, and many more are sure to follow.",
keywords = "GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EXPERIMENT, LUMINOSITY OBJECT TRANSITS, EXTRASOLAR PLANET, STELLAR CLUSTERS, GALACTIC DISK, TRANSMISSION SPECTRA, 2001 CAMPAIGN, PARENT STARS, TELESCOPE, PHOTOMETRY",
author = "Horne, {Keith Douglas}",
note = "Influencial invited review of the status and prospects of ground-based searches to discover Hot Jupiters that transit their host stars. Original work includes planet catch scaling laws and quantitative estimates of the discovery potential for ongoing transit planet search experiments.",
year = "2003",
month = jun,
language = "English",
isbn = "1583811419",
series = "ASP Conference Series",
publisher = "Astronomical Society of the Pacific",
pages = "361--370",
editor = "Drake Deming and Sara Seager",
booktitle = "Scientific frontiers in research on extrasolar planets",
}