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Planet Detection Capabilities of the Eddington Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Hans J. Deeg ,
Keith Horne ,
Fabio Favata ,
C. Aerts ,
E. Antonello ,
M. Badiali ,
C. Catala ,
J. Christensen-Dalsgaard ,
A. Gimenez  and
M. Grenon
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Hans J. Deeg
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain; hdeeg@iaa.es Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
Keith Horne
Affiliation:
St. Andrews University, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK
Fabio Favata
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
C. Aerts
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
E. Antonello
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
M. Badiali
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
C. Catala
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
J. Christensen-Dalsgaard
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
A. Gimenez
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
M. Grenon
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
A. Penny
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
H. Rauer
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
I. W. Roxburgh
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
J. Schneider
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
N. R. Waltham
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Division – Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Eddington is a space mission for extrasolar planet finding and for asteroseismic observations. It has been selected by ESA as an F2/F3 reserve mission with a potential implementation in 2008-13. Here we describe Eddington's capabilities to detect extrasolar planets, with an emphasis on the detection of habitable planets. Simulations covering the instrumental capabilities of Eddington and the stellar distributions in potential target fields lead to predictions of about 10,000 planets of all sizes and temperatures, and a few tens of terrestrial planets that are potentially habitable. Implications of Eddington for future larger scale missions are briefly discussed.

Type
Part V: Discovery and study of extrasolar planets - future
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 448 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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