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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

During its two-year prime mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is obtaining full-frame images with a regular 30-minute cadence in a sequence of 26 sectors that cover a combined 85% of the sky. While its primary science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-06 Keaton J. Bell

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

Based on the light an exoplanet blocks from its host star as it passes in front of it during a transit, the mid-transit time can be determined. Periodic variations in mid-transit times can indicate another planet's gravitational influence.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Paige Yeung , Quinn Perian , Peyton Robertson , Michael Fitzgerald , Martin Fowler , Frank Sienkiewicz , Kalée Tock

We conduct a uniform analysis of the transit timing variations (TTVs) of 145 planets from 55 Kepler multiplanet systems to infer planet masses and eccentricities. Eighty of these planets do not have previously reported mass and eccentricity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Sam Hadden , Yoram Lithwick

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

We present a study of the detection efficiency for the TESS mission, focusing on the yield of longer-period transiting exoplanets ($P > 25$ days). We created the Transit Investigation and Recoverability Application (TIaRA) pipeline to use…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Toby Rodel , Daniel Bayliss , Samuel Gill , Faith Hawthorn

Transit timing variation (TTV) provides rich information about the mass and orbital properties of exoplanets, which are often obtained by solving an inverse problem via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). In this paper, we design a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Chen Chen , Lingkai Kong , Gongjie Li , Molei Tao

Planetary systems with multiple transiting planets are beneficial for understanding planet occurrence rates and system architectures. Although we have yet to find a solar system analogue, future surveys may detect multiple terrestrial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Bethlee Lindor , Eric Agol

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

Space-based photometric surveys have discovered large numbers of planets transiting other stars, but these observe in a single band-pass and yield only the planet radius, orbital period, and transit duration. Information on the masses,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 E. Gaidos , D. Kitzmann , K. Heng

In multiple-planet systems, gravitational interactions of exoplanets could lead to transit timing variations (TTVs), whose amplitude becomes significantly enhanced when planets are in or near mean-motion resonances (MMRs). In cases where…

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

Transit timing variation (TTV) is a useful tool for studying the orbital properties of transiting objects. However, few TTV studies have been done on transiting brown dwarfs (BDs) around solar-type stars. Here we study the long-term TTV of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Wenqin Wang , Xinyue Ma , Zhangliang Chen , Cong Yu , Shangfei Liu , Bo Ma

From previous ground-based observations, the hot Jupiter exoplanet XO-6b was reported to exhibit apparently periodic transit timing variations (TTVs), with a semi-amplitude of 14 minutes and a period of about 450 days. These variations were…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Andrew R. Ridden-Harper , Jake D. Turner , Ray Jayawardhana

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

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

Transiting exoplanetary systems are surpassingly important among the planetary systems since they provide the widest spectrum of information for both the planet and the host star. If a transiting planet is on an eccentric orbit, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 András Pál , Bence Kocsis

As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission, it is executing an unprecedented survey of almost the entire sky: TESS's approved extended mission will likely extend sky coverage to ~94%, including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Matthew J Payne , Matthew J Holman , András Pál