TraMoS IV: Discarding the Quick Orbital Decay Hypothesis for OGLE-TR-113b
Abstract
In the context of the TraMoS project we present nine new transit observations of the exoplanet OGLE-TR-113b observed with the Gemini South, Magellan Baade, Danish-1.54m and SOAR telescopes. We perform a homogeneous analysis of these new transits together with ten literature transits to probe into the potential detection of an orbital decay for this planet reported by \citet{adams2010}. Our new observations extend the transit monitoring baseline for this system by 6 years, to a total of more than 13 years. With our timing analysis we obtained a ms~yr, which rejects previous hints of a larger orbital decay for OGLE-TR-113b. With our updated value of we can discard tidal quality factors of for its host star. Additionally, we calculate a 1 dispersion of the Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) of 42 seconds over the 13 years baseline, which discards additional planets in the system more massive than in 1:2, 5:3, 2:1 and 3:1 Mean Motion Resonances with OGLE-TR-113b. Finally, with the joint analysis of the 19 light curves we update transit parameters, such as the relative semi-major axis , the planet-to-star radius ratio , and constrains its orbital inclination to ~degrees.
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@article{arxiv.1510.03790,
title = {TraMoS IV: Discarding the Quick Orbital Decay Hypothesis for OGLE-TR-113b},
author = {S. Hoyer and M. López-Morales and P. Rojo and D. Minniti and E. R. Adams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03790},
year = {2015}
}
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Accepted for publication in MNRAS