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Now that well over 100 planets have been discovered, we no longer need to ask the question "Are there planets out there?" ... The objective of XO is to find additional hot-Jupiters (like HD 209458b) that transit stars bright enough for detailed follow-up studies to be done with existing telescopes such as HST, Keck, and the VLT. ... Transit observations by themselves provide no information about the mass of the planet and radial velocity studies can yield only minimum masses. ...

Detecting Long Period Planets with WASP 1 University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL To estimate the number of transiting planets in this period range, planetary occurrence rates from Kepler (Fressin et al, 2013) for varying spectral type & planet type were used. ... Two `stare' fields are currently available from 2011 (330,000 stars) producing a detection rate of 3.0±2.4 planets (Fig 4). ... Since 2011, WASP-N cameras have observed in `Stare' mode, with cadence of ~1-2min. ...

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ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS01 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW), Doug Branton (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Undetermined Pre-MAP students ... In addition, since typical white dwarfs are roughly Earth-sized, the transit of an Earth-sized planet can cause changes in brightness on the order of sev