ThReT: A new survey for Extrasolar Planetary transits at Mt. Holomon, Greece

TL;DR

ThReT is a new observational project utilizing a specialized pipeline and sky-mapping to discover Hot Jupiter exoplanets around Sun-like stars from Mt. Holomon, Greece.

Contribution

The paper introduces the ThReT project, including its instrumentation, target selection, data analysis pipeline, and preliminary results for exoplanet detection.

Findings

Sky-map of Transit Detection Probability created

Pipeline developed for data reduction and analysis

Initial candidate detections reported

Abstract

We present the instrumentation, the target selection method, the data analysis pipeline and the preliminary results of the Thessaloniki Research for Transits project (ThReT). ThReT is a new project aiming to discover Hot Jupiter Planets, orbiting Sun-like stars. In order to locate the promising spots for observations on the celestial sphere, we produced a sky-map of the Transit Detection Probability by employing data from the Tycho Catalog and applying several astrophysical and empirical relationships. For the data reduction we used the ThReT pipeline, developed by our team for this specific purpose.