An analysis of the transit times of tres-1b
An analysis of the transit times of tres-1b
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tres-1b 的渡越时间分析
DOI:
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2005.00113.x
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发表时间:
2005
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通讯作者:
E. Agol
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作者:
J. Steffen;E. Agol
The presence of a second planet in a known, transiting-planet system will cause the time between transits to vary. These variations can be used to constrain the orbital elements and mass of the perturbing planet. We analyse the set of transit times of the TrES-1 system given in Charbonneau et al. We find no convincing evidence for a second planet in the TrES-1 system from those data. By further analysis, we constrain the mass that a perturbing planet could have as a function of the semi-major axis ratio of the two planets and the eccentricity of the perturbing planet. Near low-order, mean-motion resonances (within ∼1 per cent fractional deviation), we find that a secondary planet must generally have a mass comparable to or less than the mass of the Earth ‐ showing that these data are the first to have sensitivity to subEarth-mass planets. We compare the sensitivity of this technique to the mass of the perturbing planet with future, high-precision radial velocity measurements. Ke yw ords: eclipses ‐ stars: individual: GSC 02652 − 01324 ‐ planetary systems.