Timothy M. Brown 2003 ApJ 593 L125 doi:10.1086/378310
Timothy M. Brown1
Show affiliationsGround-based searches for transiting Jupiter-sized planets have so far produced few detections of planets but many of stellar systems with eclipse depths, durations, and orbital periods that resemble those expected from planets. The detection rates prove to be consistent with our present knowledge of binary and multiple-star systems and of Jovian-mass extrasolar planets. Space-based searches for transiting Earth-sized planets will be largely unaffected by the false alarm sources that afflict ground-based searches, except for distant eclipsing binaries whose light is strongly diluted by that of a foreground star. A by-product of the rate estimation is evidence that the period distribution of extrasolar planets is depressed for periods between 5 and 200 days.
binaries: eclipsing; planetary systems; techniques: photometric
Issue 2 (2003 August 20)
Received 2003 April 24, accepted for publication 2003 July 10
Published 2003 July 22
Timothy M. Brown 2003 ApJ 593 L125
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