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Scintillation Noise in Exoplanet Transit Photometry

Föhring, D.; Wilson, R.W.; Osborn, J.; Dhillon, V.

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Authors

D. Föhring

R.W. Wilson

V. Dhillon



Abstract

Transit photometry is a powerful technique for studying exoplanets. Transit observations from the ground of targets of magnitude V= 10 or brighter, however, are limited by scintillation noise due to Earth's atmosphere. Through turbulence profiling using instruments such as the stereo-SCIDAR, we have shown to able to accurately model scintillation noise, which is essential in order to fully account for the error budget of the observation. Through numerical modelling we find that employing scintillation reducing techniques enables an improvement of a factor between 1.36 — 1.6 on the astrophysical parameters.

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Föhring, D., Wilson, R., Osborn, J., & Dhillon, V. (2015). Scintillation Noise in Exoplanet Transit Photometry. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 595(1), Article 012010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/595/1/012010

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 8, 2015
Publication Date Apr 8, 2015
Deposit Date Jan 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jun 6, 2018
Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Print ISSN 1742-6588
Electronic ISSN 1742-6596
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 595
Issue 1
Article Number 012010
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/595/1/012010
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1396825

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