[Aavso-photometry] extrasolar planet photometry

Michael Koppelman lolife at bitstream.net
Tue Sep 14 12:02:46 EDT 2004


Thanks everyone. I wasn't doubting there was science there, nor do I 
think it is bad to test your planet-finding capabilities.

I don't know the complexities of ToM determination with flat-bottomed 
eclipses like these seem to be, but it will be interesting to see the 
O-C plots for these over time.

It will also be interesting to see the development of Wilson-Devinney 
type modeling for these as time goes on. There is probably a lot of 
information in these light curves alone.

I also think we should try simultaneous observations with 10+ 
telescopes and create a light curve that is of higher quality than the 
Big Guns can get. With careful uncertainty determinations we could 
easily get our errors bars in the 0.001 range. This is an idea that 
does not seem to be attracting much interest!

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman
http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/



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