Issue |
A&A
Volume 619, November 2018
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Article Number | A154 | |
Number of page(s) | 18 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834070 | |
Published online | 20 November 2018 |
Data calibration for the MASCARA and bRing instruments★
1
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University,
PO Box 9513, 2300
RA
Leiden,
The Netherlands
e-mail: talens@strw.leidenuniv.nl
2
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester,
500 Wilson Blvd.,
Rochester,
NY
14627-0171,
USA
3
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
M/S 321-100, 4800 Oak Grove Drive,
Pasadena,
CA
91109,
USA
4
Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University,
PO Box 9518,
2300
RA,
Leiden,
The Netherlands
Received:
10
August
2018
Accepted:
4
September
2018
Aims. MASCARA and bRing are photometric surveys designed to detect variability caused by exoplanets in stars with mV < 8.4. Such variability signals are typically small and require an accurate calibration algorithm, tailored to the survey, in order to be detected. This paper presents the methods developed to calibrate the raw photometry of the MASCARA and bRing stations and characterizes the performance of the methods and instruments.
Methods. For the primary calibration, a modified version of the coarse decorrelation algorithm is used, which corrects for the extinction due to the earth’s atmosphere, the camera transmission, and intrapixel variations. Residual trends are removed from the light curves of individual stars using empirical secondary calibration methods. In order to optimize these methods, as well as characterize the performance of the instruments, transit signals were injected in the data.
Results. After optimal calibration an RMS scatter of 10 mmag at mV ~ 7.5 is achieved in the light curves. By injecting transit signals with periods between one and five days in the MASCARA data obtained by the La Palma station over the course of one year, we demonstrate that MASCARA La Palma is able to recover 84.0, 60.5 and 20.7% of signals with depths of 2, 1 and 0.5%, respectively, with a strong dependency on the observed declination, recovering 65.4% of all transit signals at δ > 0° versus 35.8% at δ < 0°. Using the full three years of data obtained by MASCARA La Palma to date, similar recovery rates are extended to periods up to ten days. We derive a preliminary occurrence rate for hot Jupiters around A-stars of >0.4%, knowing that many hot Jupiters are still overlooked. In the era of TESS, MASCARA and bRing will provide an interesting synergy for finding long-period (>13.5 days) transiting gas-giant planets around the brightest stars.
Key words: surveys / planetary systems / eclipses / telescopes / methods: data analysis
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