ESA Science & Technology - Transiting Extrasolar Planets Workshop

Start date: 26 Sep 2006
Address: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

The workshop is intended to address several topics related to Transit Astronomy, in order to offer a global overview of the status of the field, regarding observational strategies, methods to select transits, as well as detections and characterization of planets. Moreover, the workshop intends to offer a discussion platform for new approaches, methodologies, and the issue of radial velocity follow-up observations for fainter host stars. Topics:

• Transit surveys - deep and shallow
• Observing strategies
• Characterization of transiting planets
• Impact of transit results on theory
• Follow-up observations
• Simulations