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Small Stars, Giant Planets, and a Really Big Survey: The PTF Search for Planets Around M-dwarfs
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2011-01-24 15:00
2011-01-24 16:00
2011-01-24 from 15:00 to 16:00 |
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Dr. Nicholas Law (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics,U of T)
PTF/M-dwarfs is the largest search for transiting planets around cool stars, covering over 100,000 M-dwarfs. The survey is a Key Project of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. I will describe the PTF instrumentation and survey design before presenting the first cool star companions discovered by PTF/M-dwarfs. Finally, I will discuss possibilities for future transit surveys conducted from the Canadian Arctic.
