https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510106056
Transiting Sub-stellar companions of Intermediate-mass stars
1 Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5 07778 Tautenburg, Germany
2 Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory & ECAP, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
3 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Karl-Schwarzchild Str. 2 D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
4 Rheinisches Institut für Umweltforschung, Abteilung Planetenforschung, an der Universität zu Köln
a e-mail: sebastian@tls-tautenburg.de
Published online: 23 September 2015
We use the CoRoT-survey to search for transiting close-in planets of intermediate-mass stars (M* = 1.3 − 2.1 M⊙). We present recent results of our survey. RV-surveys and direct imaging campaigns showed, that intermediate-mass main-sequence stars have more massive planets then solar-like stars. Even brown dwarfs have been found. In our study we concentrated on short-period planets for which a mass-determination is possible. The detection of close-in planets of intermediate-mass stars put strong constraints on the timescales of the formation and migration. We already have identified transiting Jupiter-like planet candidates with short orbital periods and observed these candidates with high-resolution echelle-spectrographs at various Telescopes.
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