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Gravitational interactions between planets in transiting exoplanetary systems lead to variations in the times of transit that are diagnostic of the planetary masses and the dynamical state of the system. Here we show that synodic "chopping"…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Katherine M. Deck , Eric Agol

Transit timing variations (TTVs) provide a powerful means to detect and characterise additional bodies in known planetary systems, even when they do not transit their host stars. We investigate the dynamical architecture of the HD 332231…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Gracjan Maciejewski

The transit timing variation (TTV) method allows the detection of non-transiting planets through their gravitational perturbations. Since TTVs are strongly enhanced in systems close to mean-motion resonances (MMR), even a low mass planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Gwenaël Boué , Mahmoudreza Oshagh , Marco Montalto , Nuno C. Santos

Exoplanet Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) caused by gravitational forces between planets can be used to determine planetary masses and orbital parameters. Most of the observed TTVs are small and sinusoidal in time, leading to degeneracies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Yan Liang , Jakob Robnik , Uros Seljak

Estimation of planetary orbital and physical parameters from light-curve data relies heavily on the accurate interpretation of Transit Timing Variations (TTV) measurements. In this letter, we review the process of TTV measurement and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Yair Judkovsky , Aviv Ofir , Oded Aharonson

Motivated by the unsettled conclusion on whether there are any transit timing variations (TTVs) for the exoplanet Qatar-1b, 10 new transit light curves are presented and the TTV analysis with a baseline of 1400 epochs are performed. Because…

Aims. Hot Jupiters are thought to belong to single-planet systems. Somewhat surprisingly, some hot Jupiters have been reported to exhibit transit timing variations (TTVs). The aim of this paper is to identify the origin of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Szabó , Gy. M. Szabó , G. Dálya , A. E. Simon , G. Hodosán , L. L. Kiss

Transit timing variations (TTVs) can provide useful information for systems observed by transit, as they allow us to put constraints on the masses and eccentricities of the observed planets, or even to constrain the existence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-15 A. Leleu , G. Chatel , S. Udry , Y. Alibert , J. -B. Delisle , R. Mardling

Characterization of transiting planets with transit timing variations (TTVs) requires understanding how to translate the observed TTVs into masses and orbital elements of the planets. This can be challenging in multi-planet transiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Eric Agol , Katherine Deck

We have observed 7 new transits of the `hot Jupiter' WASP-5b using a 61 cm telescope located in New Zealand, in order to search for transit timing variations (TTVs) which can be induced by additional bodies existing in the system. When…

Observed transit timing variation (TTV) potentially reveals the period decay caused by star-planet tidal interaction which can explain the orbital migration of hot Jupiters. We report the TTV of XO-3b, using TESS observed timings and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-25 Fan Yang , Xing Wei

A planet's orbital orientation relative to an observer's line of sight determines the chord length for a transiting planet, i.e., the projected distance a transiting planet travels across the stellar disc. For a given circular orbit, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Aaron C. Boley , Christa Van Laerhoven , Agueda Paula Granados Contreras

The transit method is a promising means to detect exomoons, but few candidates have been identified. For planets close to their stars, the dynamical interaction between a satellite's orbit and the star must be important in their evolution.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Andi Kisare , Daniel Fabrycky

While various indirect methods are used to detect exoplanets, one of the most effective and accurate methods is the transit method, which measures the brightness of a given star for periodic dips when an exoplanet is passing in front of the…

Transit timing variations provide a powerful tool for confirming and characterizing transiting planets, as well as detecting non-transiting planets. We report the results an updated TTV analysis for 1481 planet candidates (Borucki et al.…

The presence of another planetary companion in a transiting exoplanet system can impact its transit light curve, leading to sinusoidal transit timing variations (TTV). By utilizing both $\chi^2$ and RMS analysis, we have combined the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Zixin Zhang , Wenqin Wang , Xinyue Ma , Zhangliang Chen , Yonghao Wang , Cong Yu , Shangfei Liu , Yang Gao , Baitian Tang , Bo Ma

Few planetary systems have measured mutual inclinations, and even less are found to be non-coplanar. Observing the gravitational interactions between exoplanets is an effective tool to detect non-transiting companions to transiting planets.…

In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of transit timing variations (TTVs) in the ultra-short-period gas giant WASP-19b, which orbits a G-type main-sequence star. Our analysis is based on a dataset comprising 204 transit light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Shraddha Biswas , Ing-Guey Jiang , Li-Chin Yeh , Hsin-Min Liu , Kaviya Parthasarathy , Devesh P. Sariya , D. Bisht , Mohit Singh Bisht , A. Raj

It has long been recognized that the finite speed of light can affect the observed time of an event. For example, as a source moves radially toward or away from an observer, the path length and therefore the light travel time to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Kyle E Conroy , Andrej Prsa , Martin Horvat , Keivan G Stassun

We have carried out an extensive study of the possibility of the detection of Earth-mass and super-Earth Trojan planets using transit timing variation method with the Kepler space telescope. We have considered a system consisting of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nader Haghighipour , Stephanie Capen , Tobias C. Hinse