Refining Exoplanet Ephemerides and Transit Observing Strategies
Abstract
Transiting planet discoveries have yielded a plethora of information regarding the internal structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets. These discoveries have been restricted to the low-periastron distance regime due to the bias inherent in the geometric transit probability. Monitoring known radial velocity planets at predicted transit times is a proven method of detecting transits, and presents an avenue through which to explore the mass-radius relationship of exoplanets in new regions of period/periastron space. Here we describe transit window calculations for known radial velocity planets, techniques for refining their transit ephemerides, target selection criteria, and observational methods for obtaining maximum coverage of transit windows. These methods are currently being implemented by the Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.0010,
title = {Refining Exoplanet Ephemerides and Transit Observing Strategies},
author = {Stephen R. Kane and Suvrath Mahadevan and Kaspar von Braun and Gregory Laughlin and David R. Ciardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0010},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in PASP