A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Benchmarking the power of amateur observatories for TTV exoplanets detection




AuthorsBaluev RV, Sokov EN, Shaidulin VS, Sokova IA, Jones HRA, Tuomi M, Anglada-Escude G, Benni P, Colazo CA, Schneiter ME, D'Angelo CSV, Burdanov AY, Fernandez-Lajus E, Basturk O, Hentunen VP, Shadick S

PublisherOxford Univ Press

Publication year2015

JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal name in sourceMONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Journal acronymMon Not R Astron Soc

Volume450

Issue3

First page 3101

Last page3113

Number of pages13

ISSN0035-8711

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv788


Abstract

We perform an analysis of similar to 80 000 photometric measurements for the following 10 stars hosting transiting planets: WASP-2, -4, -5, -52, Kelt-1, CoRoT-2, XO-2, TrES-1, HD 189733, GJ 436. Our analysis includes mainly transit light curves from the Exoplanet Transit Database, public photometry from the literature, and some proprietary photometry privately supplied by other authors. Half of these light curves were obtained by amateurs. From this photometry we derive 306 transit timing measurements, as well as improved planetary transit parameters. Additionally, for 6 of these 10 stars we present a set of radial velocity measurements obtained from the spectra stored in the HARPS, HARPS-N and SOPHIE archives using the HARPS-TERRA pipeline. Our analysis of these transit timing and radial velocity data did not reveal significant hints of additional orbiting bodies in almost all of the cases. In the WASP-4 case, we found hints of marginally significant TTV signals having amplitude 10-20 s, although their parameters are model dependent and uncertain, while radial velocities did not reveal statistically significant Doppler signals.




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