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Cleaning WASP-33 b transits from the host star photometric variability: analysis of TESS data from two sectors

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-01-22 v3 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Based on TESS observations of a δ\delta Scuti variable WASP-33 obtained in 2019 and 2022, we thoroughly investigate the power spectrum of this target photometric flux and construct a statistically exhaustive model for its variability. This model contains 3030 robustly justified harmonics detected in the both TESS sectors simultaneously, 1313 less robust harmonics detected in a single TESS sector, a red noise and a quasiperiodic noise terms. This allowed us to greatly improve the accuracy of the exoplanet WASP-33 b transit timings, reducing the TTV residuals r.m.s. drastically, by a factor of 3.53.5, from 6363 s to 1818 s. Finally, our analysis does not confirm existence of a detectable orbital phase variation claimed previously based on WASP-33 TESS photometry of 2019.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2409.13422,
  title  = {Cleaning WASP-33 b transits from the host star photometric variability: analysis of TESS data from two sectors},
  author = {Roman V. Baluev and Eugene N. Sokov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13422},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Accepted by MNRAS