EPJ Web of Conferences (Apr 2013)

YETI – search for young transiting planets******

  • Neuhäuser Ralph,
  • Errmann Ronny,
  • Torres Guillermo,
  • Terada Hiroshi,
  • Kellerer Aglae,
  • Maciejewski Gracjan,
  • Seeliger Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134703004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47
p. 03004

Abstract

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We present our search for young transiting planets at ages of 2 to 20 Myr. Towards this goal, we monitor a number of young open clusters with the YETI network. YETI consists of 0.4-2 m-sized telescopes at different longitudes that observe continuously over timescales much longer than a night. In our first cluster Trumpler 37 we found more than 350 variable stars. Also two transiting candidates were found so far, for which follow-up is partly done. The first candidate turned out to be an eclipsing binary with an M-type companion. We describe the research done on these two transiting candidates.