Terms photometry of known transiting exoplanets

Diana Dragomir, Stephen R. Kane, Genady Pilyavsky, Suvrath Mahadevan, David R. Ciardi, J. Zachary Gazak, Dawn M. Gelino, Alan Payne, Markus Rabus, Solange V. Ramirez, Kaspar Von Braun, Jason T. Wright, Pamela Wyatt

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Abstract

The Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey conducts radial velocity and photometric monitoring of known exoplanets in order to refine planetary orbits and predictions of possible transit times. This effort is primarily directed toward planets not known to transit, but a small sample of our targets consists of known transiting systems. Here we present precision photometry for six WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) planets acquired during their transit windows. We perform a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis for each planet and combine these data with previous measurements to redetermine the period and ephemerides for these planets. These observations provide recent mid-transit times which are useful for scheduling future observations. Our results improve the ephemerides of WASP-4b, WASP-5b, and WASP-6b and reduce the uncertainties on the mid-transit time for WASP-29b. We also confirm the orbital, stellar, and planetary parameters of all six systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number115
JournalAstronomical Journal
Volume142
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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