WINKSIM Transit Search Planet Catch Simulations

WINKSIM is Keith Horne 's Monte-Carlo simulator to evaluate the planet catch of transit surveys.


PLATO: 28x(11cm F/2.6) . Eddington: 3x(0.6m F/1.6) . Kepler: (0.95m F/1.5) .
ICET: (0.6m F/1). INT/WFC: (2.5m F/3). ESO 2.2m: (2.5m F/8). VST: (2.6m F/5.5) .
WASP0: (6.3cm F/2.8) . WASP1: (11cm F/1.8) . WASP8: 8x(11cm F/1.8) . PASS0: (4.1cm F/1.2, AP10) .
Alsubai: 4x(14.3cm F/2.8) . WASP in Space: (11cm F/1.8) . (20cm F/1.8) .
  • Mission specs, Bandpass.
  • Accuracy vs magnitude for 1 hour and 13 hour observing times.
  • Lightcurves. Phase-folded, 24 hours on each side of transit, data binned to 1 hour integratons. Shows S/N for transit detection vs star magnitude and radius for Earth-like planets (radius and temperature identical to Earth), and for Hot Jupiters .
  • Star counts ( cumulative and differential ) for main sequence spectral types O,B,A,F,G,K,M at Galactic latitude b=5,30,60,90. Star density N(d,b) = N0 exp(-|z/H|), with z=d sin(b) the height above Galactic plane. Local star density N0 and scale height H depend on spectral type. Dust scale height is 140pc and results are given for 1 mag/kpc (solid lines) and 0.5 mag/kpc (dashed lines). The model is compared with observed star counts (stars).
  • Monte-Carlo planet catch: b= 90, 60, 30, 10.
  • N(T,r) for b= 90, 60, 30, 10.
  • N(<r) for b= 90, 60, 30, 10.
  • dN/dr for b= 90, 60, 30, 10.
  • Planet Catalog: b= 90, 60, 30, 10.
  • 250-350k.dat, 250-350k.ps. Number of ``Habitable Earths'' (r=r_E, T=250-350K), found if all stars have 1.
  • 3-5d.dat, 3-5d.ps. Number of ``Hot Jupiters'' (r=r_J, P=3-5d), found if all stars have 1.
  • Discovery Zones for Doppler,Transits,Astrometry,Microlensing .
  • Ground-Based Transit Surveys .
  • Habitable (liquid water) zone.
  • Mass-radius plot for solar-system bodies.

    Related Links:
    Corot , Kepler , Eddington , Eddington document repository.
    Ground-Based Transit Searches .
    2001 Jun Cordoba: Eddington planet catch simulations. .
    2001 Oct Eddi-N proposal to implement Eddington as N clones of a smaller wide-field telescope.
    2002 Jun Washington: Review of Transit Surveys .


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    Keith Horne (kdh1@st-andrews.ac.uk)