SuperLupus: A Deep, Long Duration Transit Survey

TL;DR

SuperLupus is an extended deep transit survey of the Galactic Plane aiming to detect longer period and smaller radius planets, doubling the observational data from its predecessor to improve detection capabilities.

Contribution

This work extends the SuperLupus survey duration, increasing the number of images and enhancing the potential to discover longer period and smaller exoplanets.

Findings

Doubling the number of images improves detection sensitivity.

Enhanced capability to recover short-period planets.

Ongoing data reduction for new observations.

Abstract

SuperLupus is a deep transit survey monitoring a Galactic Plane field in the Southern hemisphere. The project is building on the successful Lupus Survey, and will double the number of images of the field from 1700 to 3400, making it one of the longest duration deep transit surveys. The immediate motivation for this expansion is to search for longer period transiting planets (5-8 days) and smaller radii planets. It will also provide near complete recovery for the shorter period planets (1-3 days). In March, April, and May 2008 we obtained the new images and work is currently in progress reducing these new data.