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    Design considerations for a ground-based search for transiting planets around L and T dwarfs

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    2019-10-21
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    Muirhead, Philip
    Tamburo, Patrick
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    Philip Muirhead, Patrick Tamburo. 2019. "Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Search for Transiting Planets around L and T Dwarfs."
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    We present design considerations for a ground-based survey for transiting exoplanets around L and T dwarfs, spectral classes that have yet to be thoroughly probed for planets. We simulate photometry for L and T targets with a variety of red-optical and near-infrared (NIR) detectors, and compare the scatter in the photometry to anticipated transit depths. Based on these results, we recommend the use of a low-dark-current detector with H-band NIR photometric capabilities. We then investigate the potential for performing a survey for Earth-sized planets for a variety of telescope sizes. We simulate planetary systems around a set of spectroscopically confirmed L and T dwarfs using measured M dwarf planet occurrence rates from Kepler (e.g. Dressing & Charbonneau 2015), and simulate their observation in surveys ranging in duration from 120 to 600 nights, randomly discarding 30% of nights to simulate weather losses. We find that an efficient survey design uses a 2-meter class telescope with a NIR instrument and 360─480 observing nights, observing multiple L and T targets each night with a dithering strategy. Surveys conducted in such a manner have over an 80% chance of detecting at least one planet, and detect around 2 planets, on average. The number of expected detections depends on the true planet occurrence rate, however, which may in fact be higher for L and T dwarfs than for M dwarfs. Poster at a 2-day meeting "BROWN DWARF TO EXOPLANET CONNECTION III" or BDEXOCON III
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