A Revised Orbital Ephemeris for HAT-P-9b

Details A Revised Orbital Ephemeris for HAT-P-9b A Revised Orbital Ephemeris for HAT-P-9b

2010-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3580v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

10 pages, 3 figures

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We present here three transit observations of HAT-P-9b taken on 14 February 2010, 18 February 2010, and 05 April 2010 UT from the University of Arizona's 1.55 meter Kuiper telescope on Mt. Bigelow. Our transit light curves were obtained in the I filter for all our observations, and underwent the same reduction process. All three of our transits deviated significantly (approximately 24 minutes earlier) from the ephemeris of Shporer et al. (2008). However, due to the large time span between our observed transits and those of Shporer et al. (2008), a 6.5 second (2 sigma) shift downwards in orbital period from the value of Shporer et al. (2008) is sufficient to explain all available transit data. We find a new period of 3.922814 +/- 0.000002 days for HAT-P-9b with no evidence for significant nonlinearities in the transit period.

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