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Mar 2008
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #159.02
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Observations of variations in the time of an exoplanet transit can reveal the presence of additional planets. The sensitivity of "Transit Timing Variation" (TTV) observations varies dramatically depending on relative orbital configuration, but in a restricted phase space TTV observations could possibly discover lower mass planets than other current methods, perhaps even earth-mass planets.
In 2006, I started the currently ongoing LCOGT TTV project to search for additional planets using the 2.0m FTN telescope on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. The images with which I started the project in 2006 will be presented. It will be shown that FTN needed improvement in order to do sufficiently accurate photometry. In 2006 Dec I moved to Maui and became the full-time onsite astronomer evaluating the telescope. I continued this work until 2007 March, when LCOGT determined that the major telescope problems were in software, and the data from the 2007 observations became unavailable.
Expectations of what can be achieved by the further work will be discussed.
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