Open Access
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SPICA Workshop
2009
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| Article Number | 02007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Planet Formation, Exoplanets and the Solar System | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/spica/200902007 | |
| Published online | 24 December 2009 | |
SPICA Workshop, 02007 (2009)
Observations of Exoplanets Transits in the Far Infrared with SPICA-SAFARI
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario - INAF, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, I-00133 Roma, Italy
When the disks of a star and of a planet overlap as a consequence of the orbital motion, the total light coming from the system dims. If an instrument is sensitive enough to detect this flux variation, important parameters of the planetary system can be derived from the observed light curve. In this paper I show under which conditions the transits can be detected given the sensitivity of SAFARI.
Key words: Stars: planetary systems / Missions: SPICA / Techniques: photometric
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