FOTOMCAp: a new quasi-automatic code for high-precision photometry

TL;DR

FOTOMCAp is a quasi-automatic IRAF-based software that enhances the precision of light curves for detecting Earth-like exoplanets via transit observations.

Contribution

The paper introduces FOTOMCAp, a new software tool that improves high-precision photometry for planetary transit light curves.

Findings

FOTOMCAp successfully produces high-precision light curves.

The code employs aperture correction for improved accuracy.

Results demonstrate its effectiveness in exoplanet transit analysis.

Abstract

The search for Earth-like planets using the transit technique has encouraged the development of strategies to obtain light curves with increasingly precision. In this context we developed the FOTOMCAp program. This is an IRAF quasi-automatic code which employs the aperture correction method and allows to obtain high-precision light curves. In this contribution we describe how this code works and show the results obtained for planetary transits light curves.