https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20101101005
Detection of small-size planetary candidates with CoRoT data
1
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, 38 rue Frédéric
Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille Cedex 13, France
[aldo.bonomo@oamp.fr]
2
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, centre universitaire d’Orsay Bât
120-121, 91405 ORSAY CEDEX
With the discovery of CoRoT-7b, the first transiting super-Earth, the CoRoT space mission has shown the capability to detect short-period rocky planets around solar-like stars. By performing a blind test with real CoRoT light curves, we want to establish the detection threshold of small-size planets in CoRoT data. We investigate the main obstacles to the detection of transiting super-Earths in CoRoT data, notably the presence of short-time scale variability and hot pixels.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011
