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An Absence of Hot Jupiter Planets in 47 Tucanae: Results of a Wide-Field Transit Search

David T. F Weldrake; Penny D Sackett; Kenneth C Freeman; Terry J Bridges · 2004 · arXiv

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Motivated by the core null result of Gilliland and coworkers, this work further addresses the question of giant planet frequency in 47 Tuc by observing, from the ground, a 52'x52' field centered on the cluster for 30.

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We present the results of a comprehensive wide field search for transiting ``Hot Jupiter'' planets (1d<P<16d) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Motivated by the core null result of Gilliland and coworkers, this work further addresses the question of giant planet frequency in 47 Tuc by observing, from the ground, a 52'x52' field centered on the cluster for 30.4 nights. Hence this work is most sensitive to the uncrowded outer regions of the cluster and concentrates on 21,920 main sequence stars (~solar in mass). This work comprises the largest ground-based transit search of a globular cluster

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