The Broadband Infrared Emission Spectrum of the Exoplanet TrES-3 (2009)
Fressin, Francois, Knutson, Heather A., Charbonneau, David, O'Donovan, Francis T., Burrows, Adam, Deming, Drake, ...
We use the Spitzer Space Telescope to estimate the dayside thermal emission of the exoplanet TrES-3 integrated in the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 micron bandpasses of the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)...
Detection of Planetary Emission from the Exoplanet TrES-2 using Spitzer /IRAC (2009)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Harrington, Joseph, Seager, Sara, Madhusudhan, N., Deming, Drake, ...
With the recent torrent of discoveries of new transiting planets, there have been ample candidates for observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope. We present here the results of our observations...
Mass and radius determinations for five transiting M-dwarf stars (2009)
Fernandez, Jose M., Latham, David W., Torres, Guillermo, Everett, Mark E., Mandushev, Georgi, Charbonneau, David, ...
We have derived masses and radii for both components in five short-period single-lined eclipsing binary stars discovered by the TrES wide-angle photometric survey for transiting planets. All these...
Sozzetti, Alessandro, Torres, Guillermo, Charbonneau, David, Winn, Joshua N., Korzennik, Sylvain G., Holman, Matthew J., ...
We report new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the parent stars of the recently discovered transiting planets TrES-3 and TrES-4. A detailed abundance analysis based on high-resolution...
Absolute properties of the low-mass eclipsing binary CM Draconis (2009)
Morales, Juan Carlos, Ribas, Ignasi, Jordi, Carme, Torres, Guillermo, Gallardo, José, Guinan, Edward F., ...
12 pages, 7 figures.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1541
Sozzetti, Alessandro, Torres, Guillermo, Charbonneau, David, Winn, Joshua N., Korzennik, Sylvain G., Holman, Matthew J., ...
We report new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the parent stars of the recently discovered transiting planets TrES-3 and TrES-4. A detailed abundance analysis based on high-resolution...
T-Lyr1-17236 : a long-period low-mass eclipsing binary (2008)
Devor, Jonathan, Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, Blake, Cullen H., White, Russel J., Rabus, Markus, ...
We describe the discovery of a 0.68+0.52 M⊙ eclipsing binary (EB) with an 8.4 day orbital period, found through a systematic search of 10 fields of the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES). Such...
Detection of a Temperature Inversion in the Broadband Infrared Emission Spectrum of TrES-4 (2008)
Knutson, Heather A., Charbonneau, David, Burrows, Adam, O'Donovan, Francis T., Mandushev, Georgi
We estimate the strength of the bandpass-integrated thermal emission from the extrasolar planet TrES-4 at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 micron using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space...
The prograde orbit of exoplanet TrES-2b (2008)
Winn, Joshua N., Johnson, John Asher, Narita, Norio, Suto, Yasushi, Turner, Edwin L., Fischer, Debra A., ...
We monitored the Doppler shift of the G0 V star TrES-2 throughout a transit of its giant planet. The anomalous Doppler shift due to stellar rotation (the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect) is discernible in...
T-Lyr1-17236: A Long-Period Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary (2008)
Devor, Jonathan, Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, Blake, Cullen H., White, Russel J., Rabus, Markus, ...
We describe the discovery of a 0.68+0.52 solar mass eclipsing binary (EB) with an 8.4-day orbital period, found through a systematic search of ten fields of the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey...
The Prograde Orbit of Exoplanet TrES-2b (2008)
Winn, Joshua N., Johnson, John Asher, Narita, Norio, Suto, Yasushi, Turner, Edwin L., Fischer, Debra A., ...
We monitored the Doppler shift of the G0V star TrES-2 throughout a transit of its giant planet. The anomalous Doppler shift due to stellar rotation (the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect) is discernible in...
Devor, Jonathan, Charbonneau, David, O'Donovan, Francis T., Mandushev, Georgi, Torres, Guillermo
In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of photometric time-series data, collected for the purpose of finding a small number of rare sources, such as transiting extrasolar planets and...
Devor, Jonathan, Charbonneau, David, O'Donovan, Francis T., Mandushev, Georgi, Torres, Guillermo
In recent years we have witnessed an explosion of photometric time-series data, collected for the purpose of finding a small number of rare sources, such as transiting extrasolar planets and...
TrES-4: A Transiting Hot Jupiter of Very Low Density (2007)
Mandushev, Georgi, O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, Latham, David W., Bakos, Gáspár Á., ...
We report the discovery of TrES-4, a hot Jupiter that transits the star GSC 02620-00648 every 3.55 days. From high-resolution spectroscopy of the star we estimate a stellar effective temperature of...
The Transit Light Curve (TLC) Project. VI. Three Transits of the Exoplanet TrES-2 (2007)
Holman, Matthew J., Winn, Joshua N., Latham, David W., O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, ...
Of the nearby transiting exoplanets that are amenable to detailed study, TrES-2 is both the most massive and the one with the largest impact parameter. We present z-band photometry of three transits...
TrES Exoplanets and False Positives: Finding the Needle in the Haystack (2007)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David
Our incomplete understanding of the formation of gas giants and of their mass-radius relationship has motivated ground-based, wide-field surveys for new transiting extrasolar giant planets. Yet,...
TrES-3: A Nearby, Massive, Transiting Hot Jupiter in a 31-Hour Orbit (2007)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Bakos, Gáspár Á., Mandushev, Georgi, Dunham, Edward W., Brown, Timothy M., ...
We describe the discovery of a massive transiting hot Jupiter with a very short orbital period (1.30619 d), which we name TrES-3. From spectroscopy of the host star GSC 03089-00929, we measure T_eff...
The Transit Light Curve Project. VI. Three Transits of the Exoplanet TrES-2 (2007)
Holman, Matthew J., Winn, Joshua N., Latham, David W., O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, ...
Of the nearby transiting exoplanets that are amenable to detailed study, TrES-2 is both the most massive and has the largest impact parameter. We present z-band photometry of three transits of...
The Transit Light Curve Project. I. Four Consecutive Transits of the Exoplanet XO-1b (2006)
Holman, Matthew J., Winn, Joshua N., Latham, David W., O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Bakos, Gáspár A., ...
We present RIz photometry of four consecutive transits of the newly discovered exoplanet XO-1b. We improve on the estimates of the transit parameters, finding the planetary radius to be RP = 1.184...
Outcome of Six Candidate Transiting Planets from a TrES Field in Andromeda (2006)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Alonso, Roi, Brown, Timothy M., Mandushev, Georgi, Dunham, Edward W., ...
Driven by the incomplete understanding of the formation of gas giant extrasolar planets and of their mass-radius relationship, several ground-based, wide-field photometric campaigns are searching the...
TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field (2006)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Mandushev, Georgi, Dunham, Edward W., Latham, David W., Torres, Guillermo, ...
We announce the discovery of the second transiting hot Jupiter discovered by the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey. The planet, which we dub TrES-2, orbits the nearby star GSC 03549-02811 every 2.47063...
The Transit Light Curve (TLC) Project. I. Four Consecutive Transits of the Exoplanet XO-1b (2006)
Holman, Matthew J., Winn, Joshua N., Latham, David W., O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Bakos, Gaspar A., ...
We present RIz photometry of four consecutive transits of the newly discovered exoplanet XO-1b. We improve upon the estimates of the transit parameters, finding the planetary radius to be R_P = 1.184...
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, Mandushev, Georgi, Dunham, Edward W., Latham, David W., ...
Ground-based wide-field surveys for nearby transiting gas giants are yielding far fewer true planets than astrophysical false positives, of which some are difficult to reject. Recent experience has...
Transit Photometry of the Core-Dominated Planet HD 149026b (2005)
Charbonneau, David, Winn, Joshua N., Latham, David W., Bakos, Gaspar, Falco, Emilio E., Holman, Matthew J., ...
We report g, V, and r photometric time series of HD 149026 spanning predicted times of transit of the Saturn-mass planetary companion, which was recently discovered by Sato and collaborators. We...
Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet (2005)
Charbonneau, David, Allen, Lori E., Megeath, S. Thomas, Torres, Guillermo, Alonso, Roi, Brown, Timothy M., ...
We present Spitzer Space Telescope infrared photometric time series of the transiting extrasolar planet system TrES-1. The data span a predicted time of secondary eclipse, corresponding to the...
The Challenge of Wide-Field Transit Surveys: The Case of GSC 01944-02289 (2005)
Mandushev, Georgi, Torres, Guillermo, Latham, David W., Charbonneau, David, Alonso, Roi, White, Russel J., ...
Wide-field searches for transiting extra-solar giant planets face the difficult challenge of separating true transit events from the numerous false positives caused by isolated or blended eclipsing...
TrES-1: The Transiting Planet of a Bright K0V Star (2004)
Alonso, Roi, Brown, Timothy M., Torres, Guillermo, Latham, David W., Sozzetti, Alessandro, Mandushev, Georgi, ...
We report the detection of a transiting Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a relatively bright (V=11.79) K0V star. We detected the transit light-curve signature in the course of the TrES multi-site...
Sherlock: An Automated Follow-Up Telescope for Wide-Field Transit Searches (2003)
Kotredes, Lewis, Charbonneau, David, Looper, Dagny L., O'Donovan, Francis T.
The most significant challenge currently facing photometric surveys for transiting gas-giant planets is that of confusion with eclipsing binary systems that mimic the photometric signature. A simple...
First Results From Sleuth: The Palomar Planet Finder (2003)
O'Donovan, Francis T., Charbonneau, David, Kotredes, Lewis
We discuss preliminary results from our first search campaign for transiting planets performed using Sleuth, an automated 10 cm telescope with a 6 degree square field of view. We monitored a field in...