An Absence of Hot Jupiter Planets in 47 Tucanae: Results of a Wide-Field Transit Search

Weldrake, David; Sackett, Penny; Bridges, Terry; Freeman, Kenneth

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An Absence of Hot Jupiter Planets in 47 Tucanae: Results of a Wide-Field Transit Search

Date

2005

Authors

Weldrake, David

Sackett, Penny

Bridges, Terry

Freeman, Kenneth

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive wide-field search for transiting "hot Jupiter" planets (gas giant planets with an orbital period in the range 1 day ≤ P ≤ 16 days) in the globular cluster 47 Tuc. Motivated by the detection of the tra