About

The Monotransit Project

Thanks to the era of space-based photometric surveys such as Kepler, K2 and CoRoT, and in the future TESS and PLATO, transiting exoplanets are being detected in large numbers. These have allowed incredible insights into the compositions, occurrence rates and even atmospheres of thousands of extrasolar planets.

However, although these surveys find hot, short-period planets in abundance, they miss cooler long-period worlds which would constitute unique and diverse population of exoplanets. That is not to say that these telescopes cannot find such worlds, however. Indeed, results have shown that even small exoplanets are detectable from a single transit. However, without further observations, and especially without another subsequent transit, such planets are extremely difficult to confirm as bona fide planets

This site therefore acts as a catalogue for all monotransiting candidates; both likely exoplanets and eclipsing binaries. This will therefore enable future observers to quickly check and confirm already detected candidates, and allow ease of follow-up obsrvations, both of which will help confirm long-period planets from monotransits.

The catalogue

The catalogue is organised as follows:

“ There are countless constellations, suns and planets. We see only the suns because they give light. The planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. ” - Giordano Bruno