The secondary eclipses of WASP-19b as seen by the ASTEP 400 telescope from Antarctica⋆⋆

Author: Abe L.   Gonçalves I.   Agabi A.   Alapini A.   Guillot T.   Mékarnia D.   Rivet J.-P.   Schmider F.-X.   Crouzet N.   Fortney J.   Pont F.   Barbieri M.   Daban J.-B.   Fanteï-Caujolle Y.   Gouvret C.   Bresson Y.   Roussel A.   Bonhomme S.   Robini A.   Dugué M.   Bondoux E.   Péron S.   Petit P.-Y.   Szulágyi J.   Fruth T.   Erikson A.   Rauer H.   Fressin F.   Valbousquet F.   Blanc P.-E.   Le van Suu A.   Aigrain S.  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1432-0746|553|issue|A49-A49

ISSN: 0004-6361

Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.553, Iss.issue, 2013-04, pp. : A49-A49

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Abstract

Aims. The Antarctica Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (ASTEP) program was originally aimed at probing the quality of the Dome C, Antarctica for the discovery and characterization of exoplanets by photometry. In the first year of operation of the 40 cm ASTEP 400 telescope (austral winter 2010), we targeted the known transiting planet WASP-19b in order to try to detect its secondary transits in the visible. This is made possible by the excellent sub-millimagnitude precision of the binned data.

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