Moutou, Claire, Hebrard, Guillaume, Bouchy, Francois, Eggenberger, Anne, Boisse, Isabelle, Bonfils, Xavier, ...
We report the detection of the primary transit of the extra-solar planet HD 80606 b, thanks to photometric and spectroscopic observations performed at Observatoire de Haute-Provence, simultaneously...
Empirical evidence for tidal evolution in transiting planetary systems (2008)
Most transiting planets orbit very close to their parent star, causing strong tidal forces between the two bodies. Tidal interaction can modify the dynamics of the system through orbital alignment,...
Star-Planet Interactions (2008)
Shkolnik, Evgenya, Aigrain, Suzanne, Cranmer, Steven, Fares, Rim, Fridlund, Malcolm, Pont, Frederic, ...
Much effort has been invested in recent years, both observationally and theoretically, to understand the interacting processes taking place in planetary systems consisting of a hot Jupiter orbiting...
HAT-P-9b: A Low Density Planet Transiting a Moderately Faint F star (2008)
Shporer, Avi, Bakos, Gaspar A., Bouchy, Francois, Pont, Frederic, Kovacs, Geza, Latham, Dave W., ...
We report the discovery of a planet transiting a moderately faint (V=12.3 mag) late F star, with an orbital period of 3.92289 +/- 0.00004 days. From the transit light curve and radial velocity...
Photometric Follow-up Observations of the Transiting Neptune-Mass Planet GJ 436b (2008)
Shporer, Avi, Mazeh, Tsevi, Pont, Frederic, Winn, Joshua N., Holman, Matthew J., Latham, David W., ...
This paper presents multi-band photometric follow-up observations of the Neptune-mass transiting planet GJ 436b, consisting of 5 new ground-based transit light curves obtained in May 2007. Together...
Towards improving robotic software reusability without losing real-time capabilities (2008)
Abstract: We aim at improving sharability and reusability of software for autonomous mobile robots without sacrificing real-time capabilities. As a first step towards this goal, we focus on real-time...
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Stassun, Keivan G., Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report the discovery of a low-mass (0.26 +/- 0.02, 0.15 +/- 0.01 Msol) pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary with a 5.3 day orbital period. JW 380 was detected as part of a high-cadence time-resolved...
Aigrain, Suzanne, Pont, Frederic
We present an extension of the formalism recently proposed by Pepper & Gaudi to evaluate the yield of transit surveys in homogeneous stellar systems, incorporating the impact of correlated noise on...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
Precision photometry for planetary transits (2007)
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire
We review the state of the art in follow-up photometry for planetary transit searches. Three topics are discussed: (1) Photometric monitoring of planets discovered by radial velocity to detect...
Potential of Photometric Searches for Transiting Planets (2006)
Many ground-based photometric surveys are now under way, and five of them have been successful at detecting transiting exoplanets. Nevertheless, detecting transiting planets has turned out to be much...
The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters (2006)
Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Jonathan, Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, Favata, Fabio, ...
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...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
The effect of red noise on planetary transit detection (2006)
Pont, Frederic, Zucker, Shay, Queloz, Didier
Since the discovery of short-period exoplanets a decade ago, photometric surveys have been recognized as a feasible method to detect transiting hot Jupiters. Many transit surveys are now under way,...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2006)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
Pont, Frederic, Zinn, Robert, Gallart, Carme, Hardy, Eduardo, Winnick, Rebeccah
Near infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Photometric searches for transiting planets: results and challenges (2005)
Ground-based photometric surveys have led to the discovery of six transiting exoplanets, five of which were detected by the OGLE survey. The FLAMES multi-object spectrograph on the VLT has permitted...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
A STEP: An Antarctica Search for Transiting extrasolar Planets (2005)
Fressin, Francois, Guillot, Tristan, Bouchy, Francois, Erikson, Anders, Gay, Jean, Gillon, Michael, ...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets (2004)
Mazeh, Tsevi, Zucker, Shay, Pont, Frederic
We point out an intriguing relation between the masses of the transiting planets and their orbital periods. For the six currently known transiting planets, the data are consistent with a decreasing...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
Isochrone ages for field dwarfs: method and application to the age-metallicity relation (2004)
A new method is presented to compute age estimates from theoretical isochrones using temperature, luminosity and metallicity data for individual stars. Based on Bayesian probability theory, this...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
Pont, Frederic, Zinn, Robert, Gallart, Carme, Hardy, Eduardo, Winnick, Rebeccah
Near infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to...
Pont, Frederic, Zinn, Robert, Gallart, Carme, Hardy, Eduardo, Winnick, Rebeccah
Near infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to...
Pont, Frederic, Zinn, Robert, Gallart, Carme, Hardy, Eduardo, Winnick, Rebeccah
Near infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to...
The Cepheid Distance Scale after Hipparcos (1998)
More than two hundred classical cepheids were measured by the Hipparcos astrometric satellite, making possible a geometrical calibration of the cepheid distance scale. However, the large average...