In this Letter we present observations of recent HAT-P-13b transits. The combined analysis of published and newly obtained transit epochs shows evidence for significant transit timing variations since the last publicly available ephemerides. Variation of transit timings result in a sudden switch of transit times. The detected full range of TTV spans ~0.015 days, which is significantly more than the known TTV events exhibited by hot Jupiters. If we have detected a periodic process, its period should be at least ~3 years because there are no signs of variations in the previous observations. This argument makes unlikely that the measured TTV is due to perturbations by HAT-P-13c.
@article{arxiv.1102.0525,
title = {Transit timing variations in the HAT-P-13 planetary system},
author = {András Pál and Krisztián Sárneczky and Gyula M. Szabó and Attila Szing and László L. Kiss and György Mezö and Zsolt Regály},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0525},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters (this version contains an additional measurement that has been acquired since the submission and acceptance of the paper, slightly polished since version 1). Measurements confirming our results are welcomed