The Potential of the Timing Method to Detect Evolved Planetary Systems

TL;DR

This paper reviews the effectiveness of the timing method, utilizing stellar pulsations and eclipse timing, for detecting planets around evolved stars, highlighting recent discoveries and potential with space and ground data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of recent findings and evaluates the potential of the timing method with data from various observatories and space missions.

Findings

Timing method successfully detects planets around evolved stars.

Recent discoveries demonstrate the method's effectiveness.

Space missions like Kepler and CoRoT enhance detection capabilities.

Abstract

The timing method, using either stellar pulsations or eclipse timing of close binaries as a clock, is proving to be an efficient way to detect planets around stars that have evolved beyond the red giant branch. In this article we present a short review of the recent discoveries and we investigate the potential of the timing method using data both from ground-based facilities as well as from the Kepler and CoRoT space missions.