RE: TrES-1 Exoplanet Report

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Mike Gutzwiller used his tass telescope to confirm an exoplanet.  So it is
possible.  He has a tech note on the subject: 
http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/technotes/tn0074.html
What you do for a search is to track a field as long as possible.  The tass
mount can only do about 3 hours.  It might go to 4 if you accept some end
effects.  Mike's note makes some estimates.  No doubt there would be better
search results looking with a big telescope with a large area camera.  But
if one wants to search the whole sky for nearby exoplanets, you might do
better with a tass like telescope set up.

Tom Droege


> [Original Message]
> From: Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> To: TASS <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Date: 8/25/2004 8:17:50 AM
> Subject: TrES-1 Exoplanet Report
>
>
> Astrobiology [1] is mentioning a paper [2] showing
> how small scopes can be used to to contribute to the
> discovery of exoplanets.
>
> Are the general observing modes for the TASS telescopes
> useful for this or do the intervals between examining
> the same area of sky limit you to catching only exoplanets
> with certain orbital characteristics?
>
> Also, if anyone wants to go into it deeply enough are
> the current data redecution methods significantly similar
> to or different from the methods discussed in the paper?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> 1. Backyard Telescopes for New Planets
>    http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1153.html
> 2. TrES-1: The Transiting Planet of a Bright K0V Star
>    http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408421
>