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We extract Transit Timing Variation (TTV) signals for 12 pairs of transiting planet candidates that are near first-order Mean Motion Resonances (MMR), using publicly available Kepler light curves (Q0-Q14). These pairs show significant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ji-Wei Xie

Transit timing variations (TTVs) are useful to constrain the existence of perturbing planets, especially in resonant systems where the variations are strongly enhanced. Here we focus on Laplace-resonant three-planet systems, and assume the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. -S. Libert , S. Renner

As the number of known exoplanets continues to grow, the question as to whether such bodies harbour satellite systems has become one of increasing interest. In this paper, we explore the transit timing effects that should be detectable due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Kipping

We confirm 27 planets in 13 planetary systems by showing the existence of statistically significant anti-correlated transit timing variations (TTVs), which demonstrates that the planet candidates are in the same system, and long-term…

We present a new method to detect planetary transits from time-series photometry, the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. TLS searches for transit-like features while taking the stellar limb darkening and planetary ingress and egress…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Michael Hippke , René Heller

We report the detection of transit timing variations (TTVs) well in excess of one hour in the Kepler multi-planet candidate system KOI 806. This system exhibits transits consistent with three separate planets -- a Super-Earth, a Jupiter,…

Multi-planet systems are a perfect laboratory for constraining planetary formation models. A few of these systems present planets that come very close to mean motion resonance, potentially leading to significant transit-timing variations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 H. G. Vivien , S. Hoyer , M. Deleuil , S. Sulis , A. Santerne , J. L. Christiansen , K. K. Hardegree-Ullman , T. A. Lopez

The search for extrasolar planets is strongly motivated by the goal of characterizing how frequent habitable worlds and life may be within the Galaxy. Whilst much effort has been spent on searching for Earth-like planets, large moons may…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 David M. Kipping

Aims: We present 11 high-precision photometric transit observations of the transiting super-Earth planet GJ1214b. Combining these data with observations from other authors, we investigate the ephemeris for possible signs of transit timing…

The Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique is a powerful dynamical tool to measure exoplanetary masses by analysing transit light curves. We assessed the transit timing performances of the Ariel Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS1/2) based on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 L. Borsato , V. Nascimbeni , G. Piotto , G. Szabó

We present a new algorithm for detecting transiting extrasolar planets in time-series photometry. The Quasiperiodic Automated Transit Search (QATS) algorithm relaxes the usual assumption of strictly periodic transits by permitting a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua A. Carter , Eric Agol

Context: Repeated observations of exoplanet transits allow us to refine the planetary parameters and probe them for any time dependent variations. In particular deviations of the period from a strictly linear ephemeris, transit timing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 M. Lendl , C. Afonso , J. Koppenhoefer , N. Nikolov , Th. Henning , M. Swain , J. Greiner

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of planets via the transit method. The transit timing variations of these planets allows us not only to infer the existence of other planets, transiting or not, but to characterize a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chris Fox , Paul Wiegert

We observed Kepler-421 during the anticipated third transit of the snow-line exoplanet Kepler-421b in order to constrain the existence and extent of transit timing variations (TTVs). Previously, the Kepler Spacecraft only observed two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Paul A. Dalba , Philip S. Muirhead

We determined new linear ephemerides of transiting exoplanets using long-cadence de-trended data from quarters Q1 to Q17 of Kepler mission. We analysed TTV diagrams of 2098 extrasolar planets. The TTVs of 121 objects were excluded (because…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Pavol Gajdoš , Martin Vaňko , Štefan Parimucha

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

Recently Kipping (2021) identified the so-called "exomoon corridor", a potentially powerful new tool for identifying possible exomoon hosts, enabled by the observation that fully half of all planets hosting an exomoon will exhibit transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alex Teachey

We present a new transit timing catalog of 2599 Kepler Objects of Interest (=KOIs), using the PDC-MAP long-cadence light curves that include the full seventeen quarters of the mission (ftp://wise- ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/tauttv/TTV/ver_112). The…

The transits of a planet on a Keplerian orbit occur at time intervals exactly equal to the period of the orbit. If a second planet is introduced the orbit is not Keplerian and the transits are no longer exactly periodic. We compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Agol , J. Steffen , R. Sari , W. Clarkson

Transit timing variations (TTVs) are observed for exoplanets at a range of amplitudes and periods, yielding an ostensibly degenerate forest of possible explanations. We offer some clarity in this forest, showing that systems with a distant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Daniel A. Yahalomi , David Kipping , Eric Agol , David Nesvorny