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突破地面日食测光的精度极限

Pushing the precision limit of ground-based eclipse photometry

M. Gillon, D. R. Anderson, B. -O. Demory, D. M. Wilson, C. Hellier, D. Queloz, C. Waelkens

摘要:

直到最近,许多人还认为,由于大气层的存在,地基测光无法达到高节奏的亚磁区。实际上,高频大气噪声(主要是闪烁)限制了高SNR测光在小时间仓内可以达到的精度。如果一个人准备破坏他的光度时间序列的采样,将数据分箱(或使用更长的曝光)允许获得更好的误差,但所获得的精度最终将受到低频噪声的限制。对同一次日食进行多次观测,并将测光与轨道周期叠加,因此通常被认为是从地面获得非常好的采样和精确的食光曲线的唯一选择。尽管如此,我们在这里表明,达到一个日食的次毫等次分制度是可能的地面仪器。这对凌日行星的定性、次食测量和小行星的地面探测具有重要意义。

英文摘要:

Until recently, it was considered by many that ground-based photometry could not reach the high cadence sub-mmag regime because of the presence of the atmosphere. Indeed, high frequency atmospheric noises (mainly scintillation) limit the precision that high SNR photometry can reach within small time bins. If one is ready to damage the sampling of his photometric time-series, binning the data (or using longer exposures) allows to get better errors, but the obtained precision will be finally limited by low frequency noises. To observe several times the same planetary eclipse and to fold the photometry with the orbital period is thus generally considered as the only option to get very well sampled and precise eclipse light curve from the ground. Nevertheless, we show here that reaching the sub-mmag sub-min regime for one eclipse is possible with a ground-based instrument. This has important implications for transiting planets characterization, secondary eclipses measurement and small planets detection from the ground.

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