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The discovery of circumbinary planets (CBPs) has advanced our understanding of planet formation and dynamical evolution in complex environments. However, the population of such planets remains small, leading their underlying physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Benjamin D. R. Davies , David J. A. Brown , Samuel Gill , Jenni R. French

Small planets are extremely common in the Galaxy, including planets with masses and radii between those of Earth and Neptune. Characterizing these planets' masses requires ultra-precise radial velocities. The ESPRESSO spectrograph was…

We present a comparative analysis of observations of the selected exoplanet transits obtained at the Kyiv Comet station with the database of the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Kepler space telescopes. The light curves…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 M. Lobodenko , Ya. Pavlenko , I. Kulyk , A. Nahurna , M. Solomakha , O. Baransky

The XO project aims at detecting transiting exoplanets around bright stars from the ground using small telescopes. The original configuration of XO (McCullough et al. 2005) has been changed and extended as described here. The instrumental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Nicolas Crouzet

Exoplanet transit events are attractive targets for the ultrahigh-resolution capabilities afforded by optical interferometers. The intersection of two developments in astronomy enable direct imaging of exoplanet transits: first,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Gerard T. van Belle , Kaspar von Braun , Tabetha Boyajian , Gail Schaefer

Eclipsing planetary systems give us an important window on extrasolar planet atmospheres. By measuring the depth of the secondary eclipse, when the planet moves behind the star, we can estimate the strength of the thermal emission from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Heather A. Knutson , David Charbonneau , Drake Deming , L. Jeremy Richardson

The Kepler-9 system harbors three known transiting planets. The system holds significant interest for several reasons. First, the outer two planets exhibit a period ratio that is close to a 2:1 orbital commensurability, with attendant…

Driven largely by multiple ground-based radial-velocity (RV) surveys and photometric space missions such as Kepler and K2, the discovery of new exoplanets has increased rapidly since the early 2000s. However, due to a target selection bias…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Filipe Pereira

Context: The TESS team periodically issues a new list of transiting exoplanet candidates based on the analysis of the accumulating light curves obtained by the satellite. The list includes the estimated epochs, periods, and durations of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Aviad Panahi , Tsevi Mazeh , Shay Zucker , David W. Latham , Karen A. Collins , Lorenzo Rimoldini , Dafydd Wyn Evans , Laurent Eyer

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

We present TransitFit, a package designed to fit exoplanetary transit light-curves. TransitFit offers multi-epoch, multi-wavelength fitting of multi-telescope transit data. TransitFit allows per-telescope detrending to be performed…

As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission it is executing an unprecedented all-sky survey with the potential to discover distant planets in our own solar system, as well as hundreds of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matthew J. Holman , Matthew J. Payne , András Pál

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

We derive solutions to transit light curves of exoplanets orbiting rapidly-rotating stars. These stars exhibit significant oblateness and gravity darkening, a phenomenon where the poles of the star have a higher temperature and luminosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shashank Dholakia , Rodrigo Luger , Shishir Dholakia

We report the results of the high precision photometric follow-up observations of five transiting hot jupiters - WASP-33b, WASP-50b, WASP-12b, HATS-18b and HAT-P-36b. The observations are made from the 2m Himalayan Chandra Telescope at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Aritra Chakrabarty , Sujan Sengupta

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\textit{Kepler}$. Owing to differences in survey design, TESS…

To date, the ability for observers to reveal the composition or thermal structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere has rested on two techniques: high-contrast direct imaging and time-series observations of transiting exoplanets. The former is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Kevin B. Stevenson

A promising method for detecting earth-sized exoplanets is the timing analysis of a known transit. The technique allows a search for variations in either the transit duration or the center induced by the perturbation of a third body, e.g. a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-08 V. Nascimbeni , G. Piotto , L. R. Bedin , M. Damasso

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…