The San Pedro Mártir Transit Observations Program
Abstract
In the framework of the TAOS-II project, aimed at the observation of small-size Kuiper Belt Object occultations, we present the first transit observation program carried on using the facilities of the San Pedro Mártir Observatory (Baja California, Mexico).The involved telescopes consist in a traditional 84cm telescope, a robotic 1.5m, and a traditional 2.12m. The project consist in validating the possibility to use these facilities to observe known Hot Jupiters, in order to set up a follow-up strategy for specific TAOS-II alerts.15 exoplanetary transits were successfully observed in 2014, in several photometric bands (U, V, R, r, and i).We present a panoramic of the project and the results of the fit of first two objects, WASP-39 and WASP-43, which are also the subject of a manuscript in preparation.Moreover, we are exploring 3D ray tracing models to model the system basing on our results, using the software SHAPE.
- Publication:
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AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #46
- Pub Date:
- November 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014DPS....4621004R