Using a Distributed Observer Network to Characterize Transit Light Curves of Exoplanet TrES-1b

Details Using a Distributed Observer Network to Characterize Transit Light Curves of Exoplanet TrES-1b Using a Distributed Observer Network to Characterize Transit Light Curves of Exoplanet TrES-1b

May 2005

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The Society for Astronomical Sciences 24th Annual Symposium on Telescope Science, held May 24-26, 2005. Published by Society for

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Individual transit light curves of exoplanet TrES-1b were obtained and combined through a collaboration of amateur and professional astronomers functioning as a distributed observer network. Statistical and time series analytical tools were applied to a transit model, suggesting the presence of flux variations in and out of transit. Tools not commonly employed by amateur astronomers, such as bootstrap Monte Carlo and spectral signal analysis, were found to be readily available as off-the-shelf packages and useful for de- tecting and characterizing exoplanet transit light curves. The collabora- tion with professional astronomers on TrES-1b validates the important role amateur observers can play in conducting exoplanet research.

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