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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

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

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

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Daniel Jontof-Hutter , Paul A. Dalba , John H. Livingston

Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems exhibit non-Keplerian orbits as a result of the gravitational influence from companions which can cause the times and durations of transits to vary. The amplitude and periodicity of the transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Kyle A. Pearson

We investigated the discrepancy between planetary mass determination using the transit timing variations (TTVs) and radial velocities (RVs), by analysing the multi-planet system Kepler-9. Despite being the first system characterised with…

Transit timing variations (TTV) are considered a tool for constraining the masses of transiting planets in the absence of radial-velocity data. Although theoretical studies have long revealed that TTV mass determinations intrinsically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Sheng Jin , Dong-Hong Wu , Xiao-Ling Xu , Jianghui Ji

Early analyses of exoplanet statistics from the Kepler Mission revealed that a model population of multiple-planet systems with low mutual inclinations (${\sim1^{\circ}-2^{\circ}}$) adequately describes the multiple-transiting systems but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Sarah C. Millholland , Matthias Y. He , Eric B. Ford , Darin Ragozzine , Daniel Fabrycky , Joshua N. Winn

The Sun-like star Kepler-160 (KOI-456) has been known to host two transiting planets, Kepler-160 b and c, of which planet c shows substantial transit-timing variations (TTVs). We used the archival Kepler photometry of Kepler-160 to search…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 René Heller , Michael Hippke , Jantje Freudenthal , Kai Rodenbeck , Natalie M. Batalha , Steve Bryson

We extend the statistical analysis of Lissauer et al. (2012, ApJ 750, 112), which demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Kepler candidate multiple transiting systems (multis) represent true transiting planets, and develop therefrom…

The eight-planet Kepler-90 system exhibits the greatest multiplicity of planets found to date. All eight planets are transiting and were discovered in photometry from the NASA Kepler primary mission. The two outermost planets, g ($P_g$ =…

We consider the potential for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to detect transit timing variations (TTVs) during both its nominal and extended mission phases. Building on previous estimates of the overall yield of planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Sam Hadden , Thomas Barclay , Matthew J. Payne , Matthew J. Holman

We develop and apply methods to extract planet masses and eccentricities from observed transit time variations (TTVs). First, we derive simple analytic expressions for the TTV that include the effects of both first- and second-order…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Sam Hadden , Yoram Lithwick

In this paper we investigate systems previously identified to exhibit transit timing variations (TTVs) in Kepler data, with the goal of predicting the expected improvements to the mass and eccentricity constraints that will arise from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Max Goldberg , Sam Hadden , Matthew J. Payne , Matthew J. Holman

Modern theoretical estimates show that with the help of real equipment we are able to detect large satellites of exoplanets (about the size of the Ganymede), although, numerical attempts of direct exomoon detection were unsuccessful. Lots…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 K. E. Naydenkin , D. S. Kaparulin

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.…

Photometric follow-ups of transiting exoplanets (TEPs) may lead to discoveries of additional, less massive bodies in extrasolar systems. This is possible by detecting and then analysing variations in transit timing of transiting exoplanets.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Maciejewski , R. Neuhaeuser , St. Raetz , R. Errmann , U. Kramm , T. O. B. Schmidt

It is relatively rare for gas giant planets to have resonant or near-resonant companions, but these systems are particularly useful for constraining planet formation and migration models. In this study, we examine Kepler-1624b, a sub-Saturn…

We apply AnalyticLC, an analytic model described in an accompanying paper, to interpret Kepler data of systems that contain two or three transiting planets. We perform tests to verify that the obtained solutions agree with full N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yair Judkovsky , Aviv Ofir , Oded Aharonson