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SUMMARY:The Solaris Project. A Timing Survey For Circumbinary Planets Arou
 nd Eclipsing Binary Stars with a Global Network of Robotic Telescopes - Ma
 ciej Konacki (Torun)
DTSTART:20140430T153000Z
DTEND:20140430T163000Z
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CONTACT:Dr B.-O. Demory
DESCRIPTION:The Solaris project aims to detect from the ground circumbinar
 y planets\nwith the timing of eclipses\nof eclipsing binary stars. For the
  Solaris project\, we were granted 2.5\nmillion Euro to establish\na netwo
 rk of four robotic 0.5-m telescopes on three continents\n(Australia\, Afri
 ca and South America)\nto carry out high cadence\, high precision photomet
 ry of a sample of\neclipsing binary stars. The last telescope was successf
 ully installed\nin Argentina In December 2013 and the entire network will 
 soon start regular observing.\nThe project's web site is www.projectsolari
 s.eu/.\n\nThis effort is accompanied by our radial velocity (RV) survey fo
 r\ncircumbinary planets which employs\nour novel iodine cell based techniq
 ue tailored to provide very high\nprecision RVs of\ndouble-lined binaries.
  Altogether these two efforts\, targeting about 300\neclipsing binary star
 s\,\nconstitute the biggest ground based survey for circumbinary planets.\
 n\nMoreover\, we expect that both these efforts will have a significant im
 pact\non the observational stellar\nastronomy. In particular for at least 
 half of our sample we expect to\ndeliver masses of\nthe stars with an accu
 racy 10-1000 times better than the current state of\nthe art.
LOCATION:Martin Ryle Seminar Room\, Kavli Institute
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