On the hunt for Trappist-1 siblings

The TRAPPIST-South 60cm telescope at La Silla (ESO) is famously known for its detection of the extraordinary TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. A discovery made during the prototype phase of our ultra-cool dwarf transit survey SPECULOOS (Search for Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars). This talk will first report on the self-consistence transit occurrence analysis of all observations of 42 bright ultra-cool dwarfs made with TRAPPIST-South during a period ranging from 2011 to 2017. On the basis that, with the exception of the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 planets, we didn't detect any other significant transiting event, we concluded on a 10% lower limit for the occurrence of planets similar to TRAPPIST-1b in this sample. The outcome is very sensitive to the size and period of the planet considered. A comprehensive statistic will be presented. Finally, performance obtained with our recently commissioned SPECULOOS Southern facility installed at Paranal will be presented. The lower occurrence limit measured with TRAPPIST survey will be compared with early results from 6 months of continue SPECULOOS core survey operations <P />