Speaker
Description
Young planets form great objects to study the early stages of planetary evolution. Due to the high activity of their host stars however, they are difficult to detect observationally. Using observations from the TESS satellite, we have compiled a list of candidate planets transiting young stars. We perform vetting through several steps such as checking background flux from nearby stars for similar signals, comparing odd and even transits to exclude eclipsing binaries, radial velocity measurements to constrain the size, and eventually photometric follow-up observations with ground-based facilities such as the 1.2 m Euler telescope (La Silla, Chile) and the 12 20 cm telescopes from NGTS (Paranal, Chile). I report on the most recent progress for our latest young, candidate planets.
