Sensitivity of Transit Searches to Habitable‐Zone Planets
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N ov 2 00 2 Sensitivity of Transit Searches to Habitable Planets
Photon-limited transit surveys in V band are in principle about 20 times more sensitive to planets of fixed size in the habitable zone around M stars than G stars. In I band the ratio is about 400. The advantages that the habitable zone lies closer and that the stars are smaller (together with the numerical superiority of M stars) more than compensate for the reduced signal due to the lower lum...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/376852