A Search for Planets Transiting the M Dwarf Debris Disk Host, AU Microscopii.pdf

A Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 000–000 (0000) Printed 1 February 2008 (MN L T X style file v2.2) E A Search for Planets Transiting the M Dwarf Debris Disk Host, AU Microscopii 1,2⋆ 3 2 2,5 6 7 Leslie Hebb , Larry Petro , Holland C. Ford , David R. Ardila , Ignacio Toledo , 0 6 2 4 Dante Minniti , David A. Golimowski , Mark Clampin 0 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK 2 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles St, Baltimore MD 21218 r 3Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218 p 4 Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 A 5Department of Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile 6NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 6 2 ] 1 February 2008 h p - ABSTRACT o r We present high cadence, high precision multi-band photometry of the young, M1Ve, t debris disk star, AU Microscopii. The data were obtained in three continuum filters s ˚ ˚ a spanning a wavelength range from 4500A to 6600A, plus Hα, over 28 nights in 2005. [ The ligh