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Exomoons are predicted to produce transit timing variations (TTVs) upon their host planet. Unfortunately, so are many other astrophysical phenomena - most notably other planets in the system. In this work, an argument of reductio ad…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 David Kipping , Alex Teachey

Motivated by recent discussions, both in private and in the literature, we use a Monte Carlo simulation of planetary systems to investigate sources of bias in determining the mass-radius distribution of exoplanets for the two primary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Jason H. Steffen

The high planetary multiplicity revealed by Kepler implies that Transit Time Variations (TTVs) are intrinsically common. The usual procedure for detecting these TTVs is biased to long-period, deep transit planets whereas most transiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Aviv Ofir , Ji-Wei Xie , Chao-Feng Jiang , Re'em Sari , Oded Aharonson

I present an initial investigation into a new planet detection technique that uses the transit timing of a known, transiting planet. The transits of a solitary planet orbiting a star occur at equally spaced intervals in time. If a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason H. Steffen

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

We present and analyze 58 transit light curves of TrES-3b and 98 transit light curves of Qatar-1b observed by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), plus two transit light curves of Qatar-1b observed by us using a ground-based…

Theoretical studies predict that Trojans are likely a frequent byproduct of planet formation and evolution. We examine the sensitivity of transit timing observations for detecting Trojan companions to transiting extrasolar planets. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-23 Eric B. Ford , Matthew J. Holman

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

Nowadays, transit timing variations (TTVs) are proving to be a very valuable tool in exoplanetary science to detect exoplanets by observing variations in transit times. To study the transit timing variation of the hot Jupiter, TrES-2b, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Shraddha Biswas , D. Bisht , Ing-Guey Jiang , Devesh P. Sariya , Kaviya Parthasarathy

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

Variations in the timing of transiting exoplanets provide a powerful tool detecting additional planets in the system. Thus, the aim of this paper is to discuss the plausibility of transit timing variations on the Qatar-1 system by means of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 C. von Essen , S. Schröter , E. Agol , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

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.…

Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) can be induced by a range of physical phenomena, including planet-planet interactions, planet-moon interactions, and stellar activity. Recent work has shown that roughly half of moons would induce fast TTVs…

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

A transiting planet exhibits sinusoidal transit-time-variations (TTVs) if perturbed by a companion near a mean-motion-resonance (MMR). We search for sinusoidal TTVs in more than 2600 Kepler candidates, using the publicly available Kepler…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ji-Wei Xie , Yanqin Wu , Yoram Lithwick

Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) are a powerful tool for detecting unseen companions in systems with known transiting exoplanets and for characterizing their masses and orbital properties. Large-scale and homogeneous TTV analyses are a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Luca Naponiello

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…

The ExoEcho project is designed to study the photodynamics of exoplanets by leveraging high-precision transit timing data from ground- and space-based telescopes. Some exoplanets are experiencing orbital decay, and transit timing variation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Xinyue Ma , Wenqin Wang , Zixin Zhang , Cong Yu , Dichang Chen , Jiwei Xie , Shangfei Liu , Li Zhou , Bo Ma

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 examined which exo-systems contain moons that may be detected in transit. We numerically modeled transit light curves of Earth-like and giant planets that cointain moons with 0.005--0.4 Earth-mass. The orbital parameters were randomly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gy. M. Szabo , K. Szatmary , Zs. Diveki , A. Simon