Holomon Research

The main research activities of the Holomon Astronomical station involve:

• Follow up observation of transiting extra-solar planets
  The main scope of this work is to build a library of transit observations from various locations using different instruments. In particular, we aim to improve the characterisation of their ephemeris, their orbital parameters, and the activity of their host stars.

• Survey for new exoplanets
  The Thessaloniki Research for Transits project is a project aiming to detect extrasolar planets, especially Hot Jupiter Planets, orbiting Sun-like stars.

• Survey for new variable stars and Observations of already known variable stars
  The equipment of the station is used to search for new variable stars and also to conduct observations of already known variables with the aim of reporting their activity and improving their basic parameters.

• Observations of asteroids
  The main aim of the project is to determine the rotational period and the shape of the asteroids.

• Seeing observations
  Systematic observations have been conducted in order to measure the quality of the night sky at Mt Holomon. These results will contribute to improve the quality of the aquired data.

Publications related to the Holomon Astronomical Station:

1. Karpouzas, K. et al. 2017. Determining the structure and properties of the triple system AV CMi 

2. Kokori, A. & Tsiaras, A. 2017. Developing a user-friendly photometric software for exoplanets to increase participation in Citizen Science (CS)  and abstract

3. Kokori, A. et al. 2017. Follow-up observations of transiting exoplanets with small telescopes

4. Kokori, A. et al. 2017. The Holomon Astronomical Station

5. Kokori, A. et al. 2017. Observations of variable stars from Holomon Astronomical Station

6. Tsiaras, A. et al. 2017. Searching for undetected companions in the Qatar-1 system through transit timing variations

7. Tsiaras, A. et al. 2017. HOPS: the photometric software of the Holomon Astronomical Station

8. Karpouzas, K. et al. 2013. A new method for planetary transit light curve optimization

9. Avdellidou, Ch. et al. 2012. Lightcurve Analysis of 266 Aline, 664 Judith, (16959) 1998 QE17 and (32910) 1994 TE15

10. Avdellidou, Ch. et al. 2011. Calculation of the rotational period of the "Mars crosser" asteroid (32910) 1994TE15​

11. Avdellidou, Ch. et al. 2011.​ Aristotle University Astronomical Station at Mt.Holomon

12. Ioannidis, P. et al. 2011. Survey for variable stars and exoplanetary transits from Holomon Astronomical Station

13. Mislis, D. et al. 2011. The Photometric Software for Transits (PhoS-T)

14. Antoniadis, I. et al. 2010. ThReT: A New Survey for Extrasolar Planetary Transits at Mt. Holomon, Greece

15. Nestoras, I. et al. 2006. Seeing Measurements from Mt. Holomon