| The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters (2006) | |||||||||
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| The Monitor project is a photometric monitoring survey of nine young (1-200Myr) clusters in the solar neighbourhood to search for eclipses by very low mass stars and brown dwarfs and for planetary transits in the light curves of cluster members. It began in the autumn of 2004 and uses several 2 to 4m telescopes worldwide. We aim to calibrate the relation between age, mass, radius and where possible luminosity, from the K-dwarf to the planet regime, in an age range where constraints on evolutionary models are currently very scarce. Any detection of an exoplanet in one of our youngest targets (. Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures, to appear in MNRAS. A PDF with full resolution figures is available from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~suz/publi/papers/monitor_intro_accepted.pdf | |||||||||
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