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TraMoS IV: Discarding the Quick Orbital Decay Hypothesis for OGLE-TR-113b

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2015-11-18 v1

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 P˙=1.0±6.0\dot{P}=-1.0 \pm 6.0 ms~yr1^{-1}, which rejects previous hints of a larger orbital decay for OGLE-TR-113b. With our updated value of P˙\dot{P} we can discard tidal quality factors of Q<105Q_{\star} < 10^{5} for its host star. Additionally, we calculate a 1σ\sigma 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 0.53.0 M0.5-3.0~M_{\oplus} 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 a/Rs=6.440.05+0.04a / R_s = 6.44^{+0.04}_{-0.05}, the planet-to-star radius ratio Rp/Rs=0.144360.00088+0.00096R_p / R_s =0.14436^{+0.00096}_{-0.00088}, and constrains its orbital inclination to i=89.270.68+0.51i =89.27^{+0.51}_{-0.68}~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