Color Dependence of the Transit Detectability for Young Active M-dwarfs

Abstract

We investigate the planetary transit detectability in the presence of stellar rotational activity from light curves for young M-dwarfs and estimate improvements of the detection at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. Making maps of the transit signal detection efficiency over the orbital period and planetary radius with light curves of members of four clusters, Hyades, Praesepe, Pleiades, and Upper Scorpius observed by the K2 mission, we evaluate the detectability for the rotation period and modulation semi-amplitude. We find that the detection efficiency remarkably decreases to about 20% for rapidly rotators with P_{rot} <= 1 d and the lack of planets in Pleiades is likely due to the high fraction of rapidly rotating M-dwarfs. We also evaluate the improvements of the planet detection with NIR photometry via tests using mock light curves assuming that the signal amplitude of stellar rotation decreases at NIR wavelengths. Our results suggest that NIR photometric monitoring would double relative detection efficiency for transiting planetary candidates with P_{rot} <= 1 d and find planets around M-dwarfs with approximately 100 Myr missing in the past transit surveys from the space.