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Detecting Circumbinary Exoplanets: Understanding Transit Timing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

David Armstrong
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK email: [email protected]
David V. Martin
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 chemin des Maillettes, Sauverny 1290, Switzerland email: [email protected]
Don Pollacco
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We have derived and tested a simple analytical model for placing limits on the transit timing variations of circumbinary exoplanets. These are generally of days in magnitude, dwarfing those found in multi-planet systems. The derived method is fast, efficient and is accurate to approximately 1% in predicting limits on the possible times of transits over a 3-year campaign.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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