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An ingress and a complete transit of HD 80606 b

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2015-05-18 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We have used four telescopes at different longitudes to obtain near-continuous lightcurve coverage of the star HD 80606 as it was transited by its \sim 4-MJup planet. The observations were performed during the predicted transit windows around the 25th of October 2008 and the 14th of February 2009. Our data set is unique in that it simultaneously constrains the duration of the transit and the planet's period. Our Markov-Chain Monte Carlo analysis of the light curves, combined with constraints from radial-velocity data, yields system parameters consistent with previously reported values. We find a planet-to-star radius ratio marginally smaller than previously reported, corresponding to a planet radius of Rp = 0.921 \pm 0.036RJup .

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@article{arxiv.1002.1052,
  title  = {An ingress and a complete transit of HD 80606 b},
  author = {M. G. Hidas and Y. Tsapras and R. A. Street and A. N. Ramaprakash and D. Mislis and J. H. M. M Schmitt and I. Steele and S. C. C. Barros and D. Pollacco and A. Ayiomamitis and J. Antoniadis and A. Nitsos and J. H. Seiradakis and S. Urakawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1052},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS accepted