The reciprocal detection of transiting exoplanets around cool stars
Authors/Creators
- 1. Queen's University Belfast
- 2. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
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Description
The detection of thousands of extrasolar planets by the transit method naturally raises the question of whether potential extrasolar observers could detect the transits of the Solar system planets, and in particular those of the Earth. In this talk I will present an analysis of the regions in the sky from where transit events of the Solar system planets can be detected - named "transit zones". I will discuss how probable it is to detect one or more Solar system planet, the timescales over which they are valid, plus the current list of known exoplanets in these zones and the prospects of finding temperate extrasolar planets which could observe transits of Earth. I will also report on a habitable zone candidate situated in one of the transit zones - a super-Earth near the inner-edge of the HZ of an early M-dwarf. We hope to find more systems with the ongoing Kepler-K2 mission.