Transit Timing Effects Due to an Exomoon

By David Kipping. 2008

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The methods and intricacies of modelling the light curve of a single transiting planet have now been covered. This necessary understanding enables the investigation of more complex situations involving three-bodies, rather than two.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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6. J. Winn
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Citations in the corpus

• Morphological Lightcurve Distortions due to Finite Integration Time (2010, background): “Timing of the eclipse minima and duration permits for the detection of other bodies in the system (Agol et al. 2005; Holman et al. 2005) and companion moons (Kipping 2009a,b).”
• How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life (2017, background): “…duration due to the orbit of the planet around the planet–moon barycenter (Sartoretti & Schneider 1999, Agol et al. 2005, Holman & Murray 2005, Kipping 2009), light curve distortions (Szabo et al. 2006), planet–moon eclipses (Cabrera & Schneider 2007), microlensing (Han 2008), pulsar timing…”
• THE FLAT TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM OF THE SUPER-EARTH GJ1214b FROM WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (2011, background): “While the presence of a moon could also be detected in temporal variations of the planetary transit duration (Kipping 2009), we only poorly constrain GJ1214b’s transit duration in individual visits due to incomplete coverage.”
• A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ 667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone (2013, background): “Unless some of these planets are found to transit, there is no currently available technique to identify satellites (Kipping 2009; Kipping et al. 2012).”
• ORBITAL PHASE VARIATIONS OF THE ECCENTRIC GIANT PLANET HAT-P-2b (2013, background): “A moon with the above qualities would produce transit timing variations of magnitude (Kipping 2009) δTTVsat = a 1/2 pl FcritRHillMsat Msat +Mpl(2GM?)”
• Transits and Occultations (2010, background): “ curve. These variations may be gradual parameter changes due to precession (MiraldaEscude´ 2002), or short-term variations due to other planets (Holman & Murray 2005, Agol et al. 2005) or moons (Kipping 2009). The effects can be especially large for bodies in resonant orbits with the transiting”
• Tidal obliquity evolution of potentially habitable planets (2011, background): “…effect (Simon et al. 2010), planet-moon eclipses (Cabrera & Schneider 2007), and transit timing and duration variations (Szabó et al. 2006; Kipping 2009) as well as the empirical constraint of the oblateness of a transiting planet (Carter & Winn 2010a,b), are first steps towards the…”