The Lupus Transit Survey For Hot Jupiters: Results and Lessons
D. D. R. Bayliss, D. T. F. Weldrake, P. D. Sackett, B. W. Tingley, K., M. Lewis

TL;DR
This paper reports on a deep transit survey in the Lupus region that identified one confirmed Hot Jupiter and provided valuable insights for future exoplanet transit searches.
Contribution
It presents the results of a wide-field transit survey, including detection methods, candidate validation, and lessons learned for optimizing future exoplanet surveys.
Findings
One confirmed Hot Jupiter (Lupus-TR-3)
Two blended systems identified
One binary system discovered
Abstract
We present the results of a deep, wide-field transit survey targeting Hot Jupiter planets in the Lupus region of the Galactic plane conducted over 53 nights concentrated in two epochs separated by a year. Using the Australian National University 40-inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory (SSO), the survey covered a 0.66 sq. deg. region close to the Galactic Plane (b=11 deg.) and monitored a total of 110,372 stars (15.0<V<22.0). Using difference imaging photometry, 16,134 light curves with a photometric precision of sigma<0.025 mag were obtained. These light curves were searched for transits, and four candidates were detected that displayed low-amplitude variability consistent with a transiting giant planet. Further investigations, including spectral typing and radial velocity measurements for some candidates, revealed that of the four, one is a true planetary companion (Lupus-TR-3),…
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