CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS
We present high precision photometry of Kepler-41, a giant planet in a 1.86 day orbit around a G6V star that was recently confirmed through radial velocity measurements. We have developed a new method to confirm giant planets solely from the photometric light curve, and we apply this method herein t...
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| author | Quintana, Elisa V. Rowe, Jason F. Barclay, Thomas Howell, Steve B. Ciardi, David R. Demory, Brice-Olivier Caldwell, Douglas A. Borucki, William J. Christiansen, Jessie L. Jenkins, Jon M. Klaus, Todd C. Fulton, Benjamin J. Morris, Robert L. Sanderfer, Dwight T. Shporer, Avi Smith, Jeffrey C. Still, Martin Thompson, Susan E. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Quintana, Elisa V. Rowe, Jason F. Barclay, Thomas Howell, Steve B. Ciardi, David R. Demory, Brice-Olivier Caldwell, Douglas A. Borucki, William J. Christiansen, Jessie L. Jenkins, Jon M. Klaus, Todd C. Fulton, Benjamin J. Morris, Robert L. Sanderfer, Dwight T. Shporer, Avi Smith, Jeffrey C. Still, Martin Thompson, Susan E. |
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| description | We present high precision photometry of Kepler-41, a giant planet in a 1.86 day orbit around a G6V star that was recently confirmed through radial velocity measurements. We have developed a new method to confirm giant planets solely from the photometric light curve, and we apply this method herein to Kepler-41 to establish the validity of this technique. We generate a full phase photometric model by including the primary and secondary transits, ellipsoidal variations, Doppler beaming, and reflected/emitted light from the planet. Third light contamination scenarios that can mimic a planetary transit signal are simulated by injecting a full range of dilution values into the model, and we re-fit each diluted light curve model to the light curve. The resulting constraints on the maximum occultation depth and stellar density combined with stellar evolution models rules out stellar blends and provides a measurement of the planet's mass, size, and temperature. We expect about two dozen Kepler giant planets can be confirmed via this method. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/932012022-09-30T18:58:45Z CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS Quintana, Elisa V. Rowe, Jason F. Barclay, Thomas Howell, Steve B. Ciardi, David R. Demory, Brice-Olivier Caldwell, Douglas A. Borucki, William J. Christiansen, Jessie L. Jenkins, Jon M. Klaus, Todd C. Fulton, Benjamin J. Morris, Robert L. Sanderfer, Dwight T. Shporer, Avi Smith, Jeffrey C. Still, Martin Thompson, Susan E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Demory, Brice-Olivier We present high precision photometry of Kepler-41, a giant planet in a 1.86 day orbit around a G6V star that was recently confirmed through radial velocity measurements. We have developed a new method to confirm giant planets solely from the photometric light curve, and we apply this method herein to Kepler-41 to establish the validity of this technique. We generate a full phase photometric model by including the primary and secondary transits, ellipsoidal variations, Doppler beaming, and reflected/emitted light from the planet. Third light contamination scenarios that can mimic a planetary transit signal are simulated by injecting a full range of dilution values into the model, and we re-fit each diluted light curve model to the light curve. The resulting constraints on the maximum occultation depth and stellar density combined with stellar evolution models rules out stellar blends and provides a measurement of the planet's mass, size, and temperature. We expect about two dozen Kepler giant planets can be confirmed via this method. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. Contract NAS-526555) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Space Science (Grant NNX09AF08G) 2015-01-29T18:27:30Z 2015-01-29T18:27:30Z 2013-04 2012-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0004-637X 1538-4357 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93201 Quintana, Elisa V., Jason F. Rowe, Thomas Barclay, Steve B. Howell, David R. Ciardi, Brice-Olivier Demory, Douglas A. Caldwell, et al. “CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS.” The Astrophysical Journal 767, no. 2 (April 5, 2013): 137. © 2013 The American Astronomical Society en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/767/2/137 Astrophysical Journal Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf IOP Publishing American Astronomical Society |
| spellingShingle | Quintana, Elisa V. Rowe, Jason F. Barclay, Thomas Howell, Steve B. Ciardi, David R. Demory, Brice-Olivier Caldwell, Douglas A. Borucki, William J. Christiansen, Jessie L. Jenkins, Jon M. Klaus, Todd C. Fulton, Benjamin J. Morris, Robert L. Sanderfer, Dwight T. Shporer, Avi Smith, Jeffrey C. Still, Martin Thompson, Susan E. CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title | CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title_full | CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title_fullStr | CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title_full_unstemmed | CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title_short | CONFIRMATION OF HOT JUPITER KEPLER-41b VIA PHASE CURVE ANALYSIS |
| title_sort | confirmation of hot jupiter kepler 41b via phase curve analysis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93201 |
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