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Exoplanet Surveys at Universidad de Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Patricio Rojo ,
James Jenkins ,
Sergio Hoyer  and
Matías Jones
Patricio Rojo
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile contact email: [email protected]
James Jenkins
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile contact email: [email protected]
Sergio Hoyer
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile contact email: [email protected]
Matías Jones
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile contact email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We present and highlight the first results of the three main exoplanet surveys we are currently conducting at Universidad de Chile: CHEPS, Red Giant Exoplanets (radial velocity), and TraMoS (transit lightcurves). We have several interesting candidates at the Calan-Hertfordshire Extrasolar Planet Search (CHEPS) project, which is aimed at searching for the currently missing southern bright transiting planets at a few m/s radial velocity precision. Using the same technique, we are also characterizing the planetary population in a constrained sample of Red Giant stars. The Transit Monitoring from the South (TraMoS) project is aimed both at improving transit parameters and at detecting any kind of lightcurve variability from several known southern exoplanet systems.

Keywords

planets: generalsurveystechniques: radial velocitytechniches: photometric
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets , August 2012 , pp. 454 - 459
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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