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We intend to search for extrasolar planets by looking for the occultations they provoke on their parent stars. Because normal (solar-type) stars give only very weak occultations with low occultation probabilities, we will investigate a class of stars more suited to this method, the dM Dwarfs. We expect show that:,
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the occultation factor is significantly enhanced
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the probability of occultation is much large.
We therefore propose to monitor a sample of 250 dMs during several months using a photometric telescope with a specially designed photometer.
This project has been submitted as a routine program to the solar 90 cm telescope THEMIS, on which we propose to permanently install the photometer. The photometer can be adapted to any photometric telescope.
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Schneider, J., Chevreton, M. (1991). A proposal for the search of extrasolar planets by occultation. In: Heidmann, J., Klein, M.J. (eds) Bioastronomy. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54752-5_183
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