Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey

The Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey or TrES, uses three 4-inch (10 cm) telescopes located at Lowell Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and the Canary Islands to locate exoplanets. It was made using the network of small, relatively inexpensive telescopes designed to look specifically for planets orbiting bright stars using the transit method. The array uses 4-inch Schmidt telescopes having CCD cameras and automated search routines. The survey was created by David Charbonneau of the Center for Astrophysics, Timothy Brown of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Edward Dunham of Lowell Observatory.[1]

The TrES survey is no longer operational.

Discoveries

Five planets have been discovered so far by the TrES project. All have been discovered using the transit method. Note that the discovery papers do not use the "b" suffix typically used in extrasolar planet designations. While forms with and without the b are used in the literature, the table here uses the designations assigned by the discoverers.

Star Constellation Right
ascension		 Declination App.
mag.		 Distance
(ly)		 Spectral
type		 Planet Mass
(MJ)		 Radius
(RJ)		 P
(days)		 a
(AU)		 e i
(°)		 Discovery
year
GSC 02652-01324[1]Lyra19h 04m 09s+36° 37′ 57″11.79512K0V TrES-1b0.611.0813.0300650.03930.13588.22004
GSC 03549-02811(*)[2]Draco19h 07m 14s+49° 18′ 59″11.41750 ± 30G0V TrES-2b1.1991.2722.470630.03556083.622006
GSC 03089-00929[3]Hercules17h 52m 07s+37° 32′ 46″12.41300G TrES-31.921.2951.306190.0226?82.152007
GSC 02620-00648(*)[4]Hercules17h 53m 13s+37° 12′ 42″11.5921400F8 TrES-40.9191.7993.5539450.05091082.862007
GSC 03949-00967[5]Cygnus20h 20m 53s+59° 26′ 56″13.7181170G TrES-51.7781.2091.48224460.02446?84.5292011
Note: (*) indicates that the planet orbits one of the stars in a binary star system.

See also

TrES light curves of the Kepler field are available at the NASA Exoplanet Archive

Similar exoplanet discovery projects

Exoplanet hunting spacecraft

References

  1. 1 2 Alonso, Roi; et al. (2004). "TrES-1: The Transiting Planet of a Bright K0V Star". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 613 (2): L153–L156. arXiv:astro-ph/0408421. Bibcode:2004ApJ...613L.153A. doi:10.1086/425256.
  2. ↑ O'Donovan, Francis T.; et al. (2006). "TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 651 (1): L61–L64. arXiv:astro-ph/0609335. Bibcode:2006ApJ...651L..61O. doi:10.1086/509123.
  3. ↑ O'Donovan, Francis T.; et al. (2007). "TrES-3: A Nearby, Massive, Transiting Hot Jupiter in a 31 Hour Orbit". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 663: L37–L40. arXiv:0705.2004. Bibcode:2007ApJ...663L..37O. doi:10.1086/519793.
  4. ↑ Mandushev, Georgi; et al. (2007). "TrES-4: A Transiting Hot Jupiter of Very Low Density". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 667 (2): L195–L198. arXiv:0708.0834. Bibcode:2007ApJ...667L.195M. doi:10.1086/522115.
  5. ↑ Mandushev, Georgi; et al. (2011). "TrES-5: A Massive Jupiter-sized Planet Transiting A Cool G-dwarf". The Astrophysical Journal. 741 (2). 114. arXiv:1108.3572. Bibcode:2011ApJ...741..114M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/114.
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