Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey

{{Short description|Cluster of telescopes that used the transit method to locate exoplanets}}

The Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, or TrES, used three 4-inch (10 cm) telescopes located at Lowell Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and Teide Observatory 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 used 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.

The TrES survey is no longer operational.

Discoveries

The TrES project discovered a total of five planets in its years of operation. All were 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.

colspan=15 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"\| Note: (*) indicates that the planet orbits one of the stars in a binary star system.
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 0.9em;" ! Star ! Constellation ! Right ascension ! Declination ! App. mag. ! Distance (ly) ! Spectral type ! Planet ! Mass ({{Jupiter mass\|link=y}}) ! Radius ({{Jupiter radius\|link=y}}) ! P (days) ! a (AU) ! e ! i (°) ! Discovery year
GSC 02652-01324	Lyra	{{RA\|19\|04\|09}}	{{DEC\|+36\|37\|57}}	11.79	512	K0V \| TrES-1	0.61	1.081	3.030065	0.0393	0.135	88.2	2004
GSC 03549-02811^(*)	Draco	{{RA\|19\|07\|14}}	{{DEC\|+49\|18\|59}}	11.41	750 ± 30	G0V \| TrES-2	1.199	1.272	2.47063	0.03556	0	83.62	2006
GSC 03089-00929	Hercules	{{RA\|17\|52\|07}}	{{DEC\|+37\|32\|46}}	12.4	1300	G \| TrES-3	1.92	1.295	1.30619	0.0226	?	82.15	2007
GSC 02620-00648^(*)	Hercules	{{RA\|17\|53\|13}}	{{DEC\|+37\|12\|42}}	11.592	1400	F8 \| TrES-4	0.919	1.799	3.553945	0.05091	0	82.86	2007
GSC 03949-00967	Cygnus	{{RA\|20\|20\|53}}	{{DEC\|+59\|26\|56}}	13.718	1170	G \| TrES-5	1.778	1.209	1.4822446	0.02446	?	84.529	2011

=Similar exoplanet discovery projects=

XO Telescope or XO
HATNet Project or HAT
SuperWASP or WASP
Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope or KELT
Next-Generation Transit Survey or NGTS

=Exoplanet hunting spacecraft=

CoRoT is an ESA spacecraft launched December 2006.
Kepler Mission is a NASA spacecraft launched March 2009.

References

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{{cite journal | title=TrES-1: The Transiting Planet of a Bright K0V Star | last1=Alonso | first1=Roi | last2=Brown | first2=Timothy M. | last3=Torres | first3=Guillermo | last4=Latham | first4=David W. | last5=Sozzetti | first5=Alessandro | last6=Mandushev | first6=Georgi | last7=Belmonte | first7=Juan A. | last8=Charbonneau | first8=David | last9=Deeg | first9=Hans J. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters | volume=613 | issue=2 | pages=L153–L156 | year=2004 | arxiv=astro-ph/0408421 | bibcode=2004ApJ...613L.153A | bibcode-access=free | doi=10.1086/425256 | doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal | title=TrES-4: A Transiting Hot Jupiter of Very Low Density | last1=Mandushev | first1=Georgi | last2=O'Donovan | first2=Francis T. | last3=Charbonneau | first3=David | last4=Torres | first4=Guillermo | last5=Latham | first5=David W. | last6=Bakos | first6=Gáspár Á. | last7=Dunham | first7=Edward W. | last8=Sozzetti | first8=Alessandro | last9=Fernández | first9=José M. | last10=Esquerdo | first10=Gilbert A. | last11=Everett | first11=Mark E. | last12=Brown | first12=Timothy M. | last13=Rabus | first13=Markus | last14=Belmonte | first14=Juan A. | last15=Hillenbrand | first15=Lynne A. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters | volume=667 | issue=2 | pages=L195–L198 | year=2007 | arxiv=0708.0834 | bibcode=2007ApJ...667L.195M | bibcode-access=free | doi=10.1086/522115 | doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal | title=TrES-5: A Massive Jupiter-sized Planet Transiting A Cool G-dwarf | last1=Mandushev| first1=Georgi| last2=Quinn| first2=Samuel N. | last3=Buchhave| first3=Lars A. | last4=Dunham| first4=Edward W. | last5=Rabus| first5=Markus | last6=Oetiker | first6=Brian | last7=Latham| first7=David W. | last8=Charbonneau | first8=David | last9=Brown | first9=Timothy M. | last10=Belmonte | first10=Juan A. | last11=O'Donovan | first11=Francis T. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=741 | issue=2 | at=114 | year=2011 | arxiv=1108.3572 | bibcode=2011ApJ...741..114M | bibcode-access=free | doi=10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/114 | doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal | title=TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field | last1=O'Donovan | first1=Francis T. | last2=Charbonneau | first2=David | last3=Mandushev | first3=Georgi | last4=Dunham | first4=Edward W. | last5=Latham | first5=David W. | last6=Torres | first6=Guillermo | last7=Sozzetti | first7=Alessandro | last8=Brown | first8=Timothy M. | last9=Trauger | first9=John T. | last10=Belmonte | first10=Juan A. | last11=Rabus | first11=Markus | last12=Almenara | first12=José M. | last13=Alonso | first13=Roi | last14=Deeg | first14=Hans J. | last15=Esquerdo | first15=Gilbert A. | last16=Falco | first16=Emilio E. | last17=Hillenbrand | first17=Lynne A. | last18=Roussanova | first18=Anna | last19=Stefanik | first19=Robert P. | last20=Winn | first20=Joshua N. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters | volume=651 | issue=1 | pages=L61–L64 | year=2006 | arxiv=astro-ph/0609335 | bibcode=2006ApJ...651L..61O | bibcode-access=free | doi=10.1086/509123 | doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal | title=TrES-3: A Nearby, Massive, Transiting Hot Jupiter in a 31 Hour Orbit | last1=O'Donovan | first1=Francis T. | last2=Charbonneau | first2=David | last3=Bakos | first3=Gáspár Á. | last4=Mandushev | first4=Georgi | last5=Dunham | first5=Edward W. | last6=Brown | first6=Timothy M. | last7=Latham | first7=David W. | last8=Torres | first8=Guillermo | last9=Sozzetti | first9=Alessandro | last10=Kovács | first10=Géza | last11=Everett | first11=Mark E. | last12=Baliber | first12=Nairn | last13=Hidas | first13=Márton G. | last14=Esquerdo | first14=Gilbert A. | last15=Rabus | first15=Markus | last16=Deeg | first16=Hans J. | last17=Belmonte | first17=Juan A. | last18=Hillenbrand | first18=Lynne A. | last19=Stefanik | first19=Robert P. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters | volume=663 | issue=1 | pages=L37–L40 | year=2007 | arxiv=0705.2004 | bibcode=2007ApJ...663L..37O | bibcode-access=free | doi=10.1086/519793 | doi-access=free }}

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External links

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070806_largest_exoplanet.html
{{cite web | url=http://www.lowell.edu/media/releases.php?release=20040824 | title=Network of Small Telescopes Discovers Distant Planet | work=Lowell Observatory | accessdate=2008-10-15 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415095056/http://www.lowell.edu/media/releases.php?release=20040824 | archivedate=2008-04-15 }}

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