Transiting exoplanets around hotter stars
Lead Research Organisation:
Keele University
Department Name: Faculty of Natural Sciences
Abstract
Many hot or rapidly rotating stars do not produce good radial-velocity signals that allow the usual methods of validating transiting extra-solar planets. Thus, very few transiting exoplanets are known around A stars or rapidly rotating early-F stars. The PhD programme will instead try to validate hot-star planet candidates from the WASP-South survey by using the Doppler tomography method, exploiting data from facilities such as the ESO 3.6m/HARPS. This programme thus aims to open up a new area of exoplanet discovery space.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Coel Hellier (Primary Supervisor) | |
| Lorna Temple (Student) |
Studentship Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST/N504348/1 | 01/10/2015 | 30/03/2021 | |||
| 1634664 | Studentship | ST/N504348/1 | 01/10/2015 | 30/09/2018 | Lorna Temple |
| Description | 4 new transiting exoplanets were discovered. |
| Exploitation Route | Other researchers might further follow up the newly discovered planets in order to better constrain system parameters or to add to the current view by looking at an aspect not already researched. E.g. some may be followed up with atmospheric studies. |
| Sectors | Other |