  All-sky surveys of low-cadence nature, such as the promising Gaia Space
mission, have the potential to "hide" planetary transit signals. We developed a
novel detection technique, the Directed Follow-Up strategy (DFU), to search for
transiting planets using sparse, low-cadence data. According to our analysis,
the expected yield of transiting Hot-Jupiters that can be revealed by Gaia will
reach a few thousands, if the DFU strategy will be applied to facilitate
detection of transiting planets with ground-based observations. This will
guaranty that Gaia will exploit its photometric capabilities and will have a
strong impact on the field of transiting planets, and in particular on
detection of Hot-Jupiters. Besides transiting exoplanets Gaia's yield is
expected to include a few tens of transiting brown dwarfs, that will be
candidates for detailed characterization, thus will help to bridge the gap
between giant planets and stars.

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics