English

TESS Observations of Kepler systems with Transit Timing Variations

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2022-07-20 v1

Abstract

We identify targets in the Kepler field that may be characterized by transit timing variations (TTVs) and are detectable by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Despite the reduced signal-to-noise ratio of TESS transits compared to Kepler, we recover 48 transits from 13 systems in Sectors 14, 15, 26, 40 and 41. We find strong evidence of a nontransiting perturber orbiting Kepler-396 (KOI-2672) and explore two possible cases of a third planet in that system that could explain the measured transit times. We update the ephemerides and mass constraints where possible at KOI-70 (Kepler-20), KOI-82 (Kepler-102), KOI-94 (Kepler-89), KOI-137 (Kepler-18), KOI-244 (Kepler-25), KOI-245 (Kepler-37), KOI-282 (Kepler-130), KOI-377 (Kepler-9), KOI-620 (Kepler-51), KOI-806 (Kepler-30), KOI-1353 (Kepler-289) and KOI-1783 (Kepler-1662).

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@article{arxiv.2207.08917,
  title  = {TESS Observations of Kepler systems with Transit Timing Variations},
  author = {Daniel Jontof-Hutter and Paul A. Dalba and John H. Livingston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08917},
  year   = {2022}
}

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26 pages, 9 figures

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