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References and Project Notes: Exoplanet Light Curves

  • Useful general information on how differential photometry can be used to measure exoplanet light curves can be found here .

  • Suitable targets can selected from the Exoplanet Transit Database (ETD).

  • Exoplanet Transit Searches and Databases: SuperWasp and Kepler

  • Chapter 8 of "The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" by Richard Berry and James Burnell is an excellent introduction to photometry. This book also contains very good general information about the reduction of CCD data. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

  • Christian Buil's CCD Astronomy is also another excellent book. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

  • Introduction to Astronomical Photometry by Edwin Budding

  • VSNET including tools for period finding.

  • It is recommended that an image from the Digital Sky Survey is also produced covering an area of 30'x30' centred on your varaible star. This can be downloaded from the STScI or ESO web site. Save the images in FITS format and display with the FITSVIEW on MS Windows or GAIA on Linux.

  • Local software for the initial data reduction

  • Filter Systems

  • Hannu Parviainens' PyTransit code is designed to model transit light curves. The paper describing the code can be found here.

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