TY - JOUR
T1 - The contribution of the major planet search surveys to EChO target selection
AU - Micela, Giuseppina
AU - Bakos, Gáspár
AU - Lopez-Morales, Mercedes
AU - Maxted, Pierre F.L.
AU - Pagano, Isabella
AU - Sozzetti, Alessandro
AU - Wheatley, Peter J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge partial support by the ASI/INAF contract I/022/12/0.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - The EChO core science will be based on a three tier survey, each with increasing sensitivity, in order to study the population of exo-planets from super-Earths to Jupiter-like planets, in the very hot to temperate zones (temperatures of 300 K - 3000 K) of F to M-type host stars. To achieve a meaningful outcome, an accurate selection of the target sample is needed. In this paper we analyse the targets, suitable for EChO observations, expected to result from a sample of present and forthcoming detection surveys. Present day discovered exoplanets are sufficient to provide a large and diverse sample. However we expect that results from ongoing and planned surveys, aimed at identifying new planets, will increase the sample of smaller planets allowing us to optimize the EChO sample selection. The analysis of the expected yields of a representative set of those surveys both from ground and space shows that they will be able to provide a large number of targets, covering an ample range of planetary and stellar parameters, fitting the EChO capabilities.
AB - The EChO core science will be based on a three tier survey, each with increasing sensitivity, in order to study the population of exo-planets from super-Earths to Jupiter-like planets, in the very hot to temperate zones (temperatures of 300 K - 3000 K) of F to M-type host stars. To achieve a meaningful outcome, an accurate selection of the target sample is needed. In this paper we analyse the targets, suitable for EChO observations, expected to result from a sample of present and forthcoming detection surveys. Present day discovered exoplanets are sufficient to provide a large and diverse sample. However we expect that results from ongoing and planned surveys, aimed at identifying new planets, will increase the sample of smaller planets allowing us to optimize the EChO sample selection. The analysis of the expected yields of a representative set of those surveys both from ground and space shows that they will be able to provide a large number of targets, covering an ample range of planetary and stellar parameters, fitting the EChO capabilities.
KW - EChO
KW - Planetary systems
KW - Surveys
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U2 - 10.1007/s10686-014-9412-3
DO - 10.1007/s10686-014-9412-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84952982501
SN - 0922-6435
VL - 40
SP - 577
EP - 593
JO - Experimental Astronomy
JF - Experimental Astronomy
IS - 2-3
ER -