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