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19 April 2024

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PLANET II: A Microlensing and Transit Search for Extrasolar Planets
Penny D. Sackett ; M.D. Albrow ; J.-P. Beaulieu ; J.A.R. Caldwell ; C. Coutures ; M. Dominik ; J. Greenhill ; K. Hill ; K. Horne ; U.-G. Jorgensen ; S. Kane ; D. Kubas ; R. Martin ; J.W. Menzies ; K.R. Pollard ; K.C. Sahu ; J. Wambsganss ; R. Watson ; A. Williams ;
Date:	6 Nov 2002
Subject:	astro-ph
Affiliation:	The PLANET Collaboration
Abstract:	Due to their extremely small luminosity compared to the stars they orbit, planets outside our own Solar System are extraordinarily difficult to detect directly in optical light. Careful photometric monitoring of distant stars, however, can reveal the presence of exoplanets via the microlensing or eclipsing effects they induce. The international PLANET collaboration is performing such monitoring using a cadre of semi-dedicated telescopes around the world. Their results constrain the number of gas giants orbiting 1--7 AU from the most typical stars in the Galaxy. Upgrades in the program are opening regions of ``exoplanet discovery space’’ -- toward smaller masses and larger orbital radii -- that are inaccessible to the Doppler velocity technique.
Source:	arXiv, astro-ph/0211098
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