Planetary transit candidates in the CoRoT-SRc01 field

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) 2012-03, Vol.539, p.1-1
• Main Authors: Erikson, A, Santerne, A, Renner, S, Barge, P, Aigrain, S, Alapini, A, Almenara, J -M, Alonso, R, Auvergne, M, Baglin, A, Benz, W, Bonomo, A S, Borde, P, Bouchy, F, Bruntt, H, Cabrera, J, Carone, L, Carpano, S, Csizmadia, Sz, Deleuil, M, Deeg, H J, Diaz, R F, Dvorak, R, Ferraz-Mello, S, Fridlund, M, Gandolfi, D, Gazzano, J -C, Gillon, M, Guenther, E W, Guillot, T, Hatzes, A, Hebrard, G, Jorda, L, Lammer, H, Leger, A, Llebaria, A, Mayor, M, Mazeh, T, Moutou, C, Ollivier, M, Ofir, A, Paetzold, M, Pepe, F, Pont, F, Queloz, D, Rabus, M, Rauer, H, Regulo, C, Rouan, D, Samuel, B, et. al
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0004-6361; 1432-0746

The space mission CoRoT is devoted to the analysis of stellar variability and the photometric detection of extrasolar planets. The authors present the list of planetary transit candidates detected in the first short run observed by CoRoT that targeted SRc01, towards the Galactic center in the direction of Aquila, which lasted from April 2007 to May 2007. Among the acquired data, they analyzed those for 1269 sources in the chromatic bands and 5705 in the monochromatic band. Instrumental noise and the stellar variability were treated with several detrending tools, to which several transit-search algorithms were subsequently applied. Fifty-one sources were classified as planetary transit candidates and 26 were followed up with ground-based observations. Until now, no planet has been detected in the CoRoT data from the SRc01 field.