- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/64
- Title:
- Transit times of Kepler-448b and Kepler-693b
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/64
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I report the discovery of non-transiting close companions to two transiting warm Jupiters (WJs), Kepler-448/KOI-12b (orbital period P=17.9days, radius R_p_=1.23_-0.05_^+0.06^R_Jup_) and Kepler-693/KOI-824b (P=15.4days, R_p_=0.91+/-0.05R_Jup_), via dynamical modeling of their transit timing and duration variations (TTVs and TDVs). The companions have masses of 22_-5_^+7^M_Jup_ (Kepler-448c) and 150_-40_^+60^M_Jup_ (Kepler-693c), and both are on eccentric orbits (e=0.65_-0.09_^+0.13^ for Kepler-448c and e=0.47_-0.06_^+0.11^ for Kepler-693c) with periastron distances of 1.5au. Moderate eccentricities are detected for the inner orbits as well (e=0.34_-0.07_^+0.08^ for Kepler-448b and e=0.2_-0.1_^+0.2^ for Kepler-693b). In the Kepler-693 system, a large mutual inclination between the inner and outer orbits (53_-9_^+7^deg or 134_-10_^+11^deg) is also revealed by the TDVs. This is likely to induce a secular oscillation in the eccentricity of the inner WJ that brings its periastron close enough to the host star for tidal star-planet interactions to be significant. In the Kepler-448 system, the mutual inclination is weakly constrained, and such an eccentricity oscillation is possible for a fraction of the solutions. Thus these WJs may be undergoing tidal migration to become hot Jupiters (HJs), although the migration via this process from beyond the snow line is disfavored by the close-in and massive nature of the companions. This may indicate that WJs can be formed in situ and could even evolve into HJs via high-eccentricity migration inside the snow line.
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21372. Transit times of Qatar-1b
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/577/A109
- Title:
- Transit times of Qatar-1b
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/577/A109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The transiting hot Jupiter planet Qatar-1 b was presented to exhibit variations in transit times that could be of perturbative nature. A hot Jupiter with a planetary companion on a nearby orbit would constitute an unprecedented planetary configuration, important for theories of formation and evolution of planetary systems. We performed a photometric follow-up campaign to confirm or refute transit timing variations. We extend the baseline of transit observations by acquiring 18 new transit light curves acquired with 0.6-2.0 m telescopes. These photometric time series, together with data available in the literature, were analyzed in a homogenous way to derive reliable transit parameters and their uncertainties. We show that the dataset of transit times is consistent with a linear ephemeris leaving no hint for any periodic variations with a range of 1 min. We find no compelling evidence for the existence of a close-in planetary companion to Qatar-1 b. This finding is in line with a paradigm that hot Jupiters are not components of compact multi-planetary systems. Based on dynamical simulations, we place tighter constraints on a mass of any fictitious nearby planet in the system. Furthermore, new transit light curves allowed us to redetermine system parameters with the precision better than that reported in previous studies. Our values generally agree with previous determinations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/210
- Title:
- Transit Time Vartiations (TTVs) of WASP-43
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/210
- Date:
- 15 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- WASP-43b is one of the most important candidates for detecting an orbital decay. We investigate pieces of evidence for this expectation as variations in its transit timings, based on the ground and space observations. The data set includes the transit observations at the TUBITAK National Observatory of Turkey and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We present a global model of the system, based on the most precise photometry from space, ground, and archival radial velocity data. Using the homogenized data set and modeled light curves, we measure the mid-transit times for WASP-43b. Our analysis agrees with a linear ephemeris for which we refine the light elements for future observations of the system. However, there is a negative difference between the transit timings derived from TESS data in two sectors (9 and 35) and a hint of an orbital period decrease in the entire data set. Both findings are statistically insignificant due to the short baseline of observations, which prevents us from drawing firm conclusions about the orbital decay of this ultra-short-period planet. However, assuming the effect of this decrease of the period in the planet's orbit, we derive a lower limit for the reduced tidal quality factor as Q*'>(4.01{+/-}1.15)x10^5^ from the best-fitting quadratic function. Finally, we calculate a probable rotational period for this system as 7.52days from the out-of-transit flux variation in the TESS light curves due to spot modulation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/133
- Title:
- Transit timing and light curves for K2-146
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- K2-146 is a mid-M dwarf (M_*_=0.331+/-0.009 M_{sun}_; R_*_=0.330+/-0.010 R_{sun}_), observed in Campaigns 5, 16, and 18 of the K2 mission. In Campaign 5 data, a single planet was discovered with an orbital period of 2.6 days and large transit timing variations due to an unknown perturber. Here, we analyze data from Campaigns 16 and 18, detecting the transits of a second planet, c, with an orbital period of 4.0 days, librating in a 3:2 resonance with planet b. Large, anticorrelated timing variations of both planets exist due to their resonant perturbations. The planets have a mutual inclination of 2.40{deg}+/-0.25{deg}, which torqued planet c more closely into our line of sight. Planet c was grazing in Campaign 5 and thus missed in previous searches; it is fully transiting in Campaigns 16 and 18, and its transit depth is three times larger. We improve the stellar properties using data from Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345), and use dynamical fits to find that both planets are sub-Neptunes: their masses are 5.77+/-0.18 and 7.50+/-0.23 M_{Earth}_, and their radii are 2.04+/-0.06 and 2.19+/-0.07 R_{Earth}_, respectively. These mass constraints set the precision record for small exoplanets (a few gas giants have comparable relative precision). These planets lie in the photoevaporation valley when viewed in Radius-Period space, but due to the low-luminosity M-dwarf host star, they lie among the atmosphere-bearing planets when viewed in Radius-Irradiation space. This, along with their densities being 60-80% that of Earth, suggests that they may both have retained a substantial gaseous envelope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/2
- Title:
- Transit timing observations from Kepler. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/197/2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The architectures of multiple planet systems can provide valuable constraints on models of planet formation, including orbital migration, and excitation of orbital eccentricities and inclinations. NASA's Kepler mission has identified 1235 transiting planet candidates. The method of transit timing variations (TTVs) has already confirmed seven planets in two planetary systems. We perform a transit timing analysis of the Kepler planet candidates. We find that at least ~11% of planet candidates currently suitable for TTV analysis show evidence suggestive of TTVs, representing at least ~65 TTV candidates. In all cases, the time span of observations must increase for TTVs to provide strong constraints on planet masses and/or orbits, as expected based on N-body integrations of multiple transiting planet candidate systems (assuming circular and coplanar orbits).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/208/22
- Title:
- Transit timing variation for 12 planetary pairs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/208/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We extract transit timing variation (TTV) signals for 12 pairs of transiting planet candidates that are near first-order mean motion resonances (MMR), using publicly available Kepler light curves (Q0-Q14). These pairs show significant sinusoidal TTVs with theoretically predicted periods, which demonstrate these planet candidates are orbiting and interacting in the same system. Although individual masses cannot be accurately extracted based only on TTVs because of the well-known degeneracy between mass and eccentricity, TTV phases and amplitudes can still place upper limits on the masses of the candidates, confirming their planetary nature. Furthermore, the mass ratios of these planet pairs can be relatively tightly constrained using these TTVs. The planetary pair in KOI 880 seems to have particularly high mass and density ratios, which might indicate very different internal compositions of these two planets. Some of these newly confirmed planets are also near MMR with other candidates in the system, forming unique resonance chains (e.g., KOI 500).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/210/25
- Title:
- Transit timing variation for 15 planetary pairs. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/210/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Following on from Paper I (Cat. J/ApJS/208/22) in this series, I report the confirmation of a further 30 planets in 15 multiple-planet systems via transit timing variations (TTVs), using the publicly available Kepler light curves (Q0-Q16). All 15 pairs are near first-order mean motion resonances, showing sinusoidal TTVs consistent with theoretically predicted periods, which demonstrate they are orbiting and interacting in the same systems. Although individual masses cannot be accurately extracted based only on TTVs (because of the well known degeneracy between mass and eccentricity), the measured TTV phases and amplitudes can still place relatively tight constraints on their mass ratios and upper limits on their masses, which confirm their planetary nature. Some of these systems (KOI-274, KOI-285, KOI-370, and KOI-2672) are relatively bright and thus suitable for further follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/55
- Title:
- 65 Transit-timing variation planets properties
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/55
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 00:18:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Transit surveys have revealed a significant population of compact multiplanet systems, containing several sub-Neptune-mass planets on close-in, tightly-packed orbits. These systems are thought to have formed through a final phase of giant impacts, which would tend to leave systems close to the edge of stability. Here, we assess this hypothesis, comparing observed eccentricities in systems exhibiting transit-timing variations versus the maximum eccentricities compatible with long-term stability. We use the machine-learning classifier SPOCK (Tamayo et al.) to rapidly classify the stability of numerous initial configurations and hence determine these stability limits. While previous studies have argued that multiplanet systems are often maximally packed, in the sense that they could not host any additional planets, we find that the existing planets in these systems have measured eccentricities below the limits allowed by stability by a factor of 2-10. We compare these results against predictions from the giant-impact theory of planet formation, derived from both N-body integrations and theoretical expectations that, in the absence of dissipation, the orbits of such planets should be distributed uniformly throughout the phase space volume allowed by stability. We find that the observed systems have systematically lower eccentricities than this scenario predicts, with a median eccentricity about four times lower than predicted. This suggests that, if these systems formed through giant impacts, then some dissipation must occur to damp their eccentricities. This may occur through interactions with the natal gas disk or a leftover population of planetesimals, or over longer timescales through the coupling of tidal and secular processes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/655/A66
- Title:
- Transit Timing Variations bias in transit surveys
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/655/A66
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) can provide useful information for systems observed by transit, by putting constraints on the masses and eccentricities of the observed planets, or even constrain the existence of non-transiting companions. However, TTVs can also act as a detection bias that can prevent the detection of small planets in transit surveys, that would otherwise be detected by standard algorithm such as the Boxed Least Square algorithm (BLS) if their orbit was not perturbed. This bias is especially present for surveys with long baseline, such as Kepler, some of the TESS sectors, and the upcoming PLATO mission. Here we introduce a detection method that is robust to large TTVs, and illustrate it by recovering and confirming a pair of resonant super-Earths with 10 hour TTVs around Kepler-1705 (prev. KOI-4772). The method is based on a neural network trained to recover the tracks of low-SNR perturbed planets in river diagrams. We then recover the transit parameters of these candidates by fitting the lightcurve. The individual transit signal-to-noise of Kepler-1705b and c are about three time smaller than all the previously-known planets with TTVs of 3 hours or more, pushing the boundary in the recovering of these small, dynamically active planets. Recovering this type of object is essential to have a complete picture of the observed planetary systems, solving for a bias not often taken into account in statistical studies of exoplanet populations. In addition, TTVs are a means of obtaining mass estimates which can be essential to studying the internal structure of planets discovered by transit surveys. Finally, we show that due to the strong orbital perturbations, it is possible that the spin of the outer resonant planet of Kepler-1705 is trapped in a sub or super-synchronous spin-orbit resonance. This would have important consequences on the climate of the planet since a non-synchronous spin implies that the flux of the star is spread over the whole planetary surface.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/202
- Title:
- Transit timing variations of Kepler-90g and h
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/202
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Exoplanet transit-timing variations (TTVs) caused by gravitational forces between planets can be used to determine planetary masses and orbital parameters. Most of the observed TTVs are small and sinusoidal in time, leading to degeneracies between the masses and orbital parameters. Here we report a TTV analysis of Kepler-90g and Kepler-90h, which exhibit large TTVs up to 25hr. With optimization, we find a unique solution that allows us to constrain all of the orbital parameters. The best-fit masses for Kepler-90g and 90h are 15.0_-0.8_^+0.9^M{Earth} (Earth mass) and 203_-5_^+5^M_{Earth}, respectively, with Kepler-90g having an unusually low apparent density of 0.15{+/-}0.05g/cm^3^. The uniqueness of orbital parameter solution enables a long-term dynamical integration, which reveals that although their periods are close to 2:3 orbital resonance, they are not locked in resonance, and the configuration is stable over billions of years. The dynamical history of the system suggests that planet interactions are able to raise the eccentricities and break the resonant lock after the initial formation.
