https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20101106001
ASTEP: Towards the detection and characterization of exoplanets from Dome C
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Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d’Azur,
France
[crouzet@oca.eu]
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Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d’Azur,
France
3
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA,
US
4
Optique et Vision, Juan les Pins, France
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DLR Institute for Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
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Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, TU Berlin, Germany
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Oxford Astrophysics, Department of Physics, UK
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School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK
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Universitá di Padova, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Italy
The ASTEP project (Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets), aims at testing the quality of the Dome C site in Antarctica for photometry in the visible, as well as detecting and characterizing transiting exoplanets. A dedicated telescope, ASTEP400, has been developped and installed at Concordia. The first campaign took place during the winter 2010, and the telescope functionned nominally during all the winter. A first analysis of the data leads to a precision of 189 and 205 ppm for WASP-19 and WASP-18 respectively, for continuous observations during 1 month. This shows that extremely high precision photometry is achievable from Dome C.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011