Analytic approximations for transit light curve observables, uncertainties, and covariances

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to have analytic approximations for the parameters as well as th...

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Main Authors: Carter, Joshua Adam, Yee, Jennifer C., Eastman, Jason, Gaudi, B. Scott, Winn, Joshua Nathan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51811
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X