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NASA Citizen Scientists have used Exoplanet Transit Interpretation Code (EXOTIC) to reduce 40 sets of time-series images of WASP-12 taken by privately owned telescopes and a 6-inch telescope operated by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard…

Never before has the detection and characterization of exoplanets via transit photometry been as promising and feasible as it is now, due to the increasing breadth and sensitivity of time domain optical surveys. Past works have made use of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Anna Zuckerman , James Davenport , Steve Croft , Andrew Siemion , Imke de Pater

The Wide Field Camera Transit Survey is a pioneer program aimed to search for extra-solar planets in the near-infrared. The standard data reduction pipeline of the program uses aperture photometry to construct the light curves. We…

We present optical photometry of 16 transits of the super-Earth GJ 1214b, allowing us to refine the system parameters and search for additional planets via transit timing. Starspot-crossing events are detected in two light curves, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Joshua A. Carter , Joshua N. Winn , Matthew J. Holman , Daniel Fabrycky , Zachory K. Berta , Christopher J. Burke , Philip Nutzman

We present the discovery of a candidate multiply-transiting system, the first one found in the CoRoT mission. Two transit-like features with periods of 5.11 and 11.76d are detected in the CoRoT light curve, around a main sequence K1V star…

Multi-band observations of planetary transits using the telescope defocus technique may yield high-quality light curves suitable for refining the physical properties of exoplanets even with small or medium size telescopes. Such observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Nikolov , G. Chen , J. J. Fortney , L. Mancini , J. Southworth , R. van Boekel , Th. Henning

WASP-12 b, WASP-33 b, WASP-36 b, and WASP-46 b are four transiting planetary systems which we have studied. These systems' light curves were derived from observations made by the Transiting Light Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and some…

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…

Over the last decade, exoplanetary transmission spectra have yielded an unprecedented understanding about the physical and chemical nature of planets outside our solar system. Physical and chemical knowledge is mainly extracted via fitting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Luis Welbanks , Peter McGill , Michael Line , Nikku Madhusudhan

We present I and B photometry of five distinct transits of the exoplanet OGLE-TR-10b. By modeling the light curves, we find the planetary radius to be R_P = 1.06 +/- 0.08 R_Jup and the stellar radius to be R_S = 1.10 +/- 0.07 R_sun. The…

One of the obstacles in the search for exoplanets via transits is the large number of candidates that must be followed up, few of which ultimately prove to be exoplanets. Any method that could make this process more efficient by somehow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Tingley , P. D. Sackett

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is surveying a large fraction of the sky, generating a vast database of photometric time series data that requires thorough analysis to identify exoplanetary transit signals. Automated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Helem Salinas , Rafael Brahm , Greg Olmschenk , Richard K. Barry , Karim Pichara , Stela Ishitani Silva , Vladimir Araujo

Exoplanet orbital eccentricities offer valuable clues about the history of planetary systems. Eccentric, Jupiter-sized planets are particularly interesting: they may link the "cold" Jupiters beyond the ice line to close-in hot Jupiters,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-06 Rebekah I. Dawson , John Asher Johnson

In the era of photometry with space-based telescopes, such as CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite), JWST (James Webb Space Telescope), PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), and ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Sz. Kálmán , Sz. Csizmadia , L. M. Bernabó , R. Szabó , Gy. M. Szabó

The recently discovered transiting very hot Jupiter, HAT-P-7b, a planet detected by the telescopes of HATNet, turned out to be among the ones subjected to the highest irradiation from the parent star. As known, the combination of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 András Pál , Gáspár Á. Bakos , Robert W. Noyes , Guillermo Torres

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

The physical characteristics and atmospheric chemical composition of newly discovered exoplanets are often inferred from their transit spectra which are obtained from complex numerical models of radiative transfer. Alternatively, simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman

We present a detailed transit photometric analysis of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-12 b using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The study is based on publicly available calibrated light curves and target pixel files…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Chinedu Jude Nnaji

In this study, ten exoplanets were studied. Their photometric observations were obtained from the ETD. After performing the data reduction steps, their parameters were obtained through Exofast online software. Then the total mass of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 A. Poro , M. Hedayatjoo , Y. Dashti , F. MohammadiZadeh , M. Hashemi , E. Rajaei , A. Kazemi , A. Sarostad , M. Nastaran , Z. Zarei , A. Dehghani Ghanatghestani

We present an efficient analytical method to predict the maximum transit timing variations of a circumbinary exoplanet, given some basic parameters of the host binary. We derive an analytical model giving limits on the potential location of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Armstrong , D. V. Martin , G. Brown , F. Faedi , Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew , R. Mardling , D. Pollacco , A. H. M. J. Triaud , S. Udry