Searching for hot Jupiter transits around cool stars

Obermeier, Christian (2016): Searching for hot Jupiter transits around cool stars. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik

Abstract

In this thesis, I describe the search for transiting hot Jupiters with a focus on cool dwarfs, low-mass main-sequence stars. I detail the results of our Pan-Planets survey and the necessary follow-up and show a discovered planet in the Beehive cluster M44, a transiting hot Neptune around an M dwarf. Finally, I evaluate our results in the context of planet occurrence rate and demonstrate that we set more precise limits for hot Jupiters in M dwarf systems than other projects before us.

Abstract

Deutsche Übersetzung des Titels: Die Suche nach heißen Jupiter-Transits um kühle Sterne

• Dokumententyp: Dissertationen (Dissertation, LMU München)
• Keywords: Exoplanets, Transit, Stars, Main sequence, Survey
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik ; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• Fakultäten: Fakultät für Physik
• Sprache der Hochschulschrift: Englisch
• Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 20. September 2016
• 1. Bericht­erstatter:in: Saglia, Roberto Philip