Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-06-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scientific paper
We present results from a search for additional transiting planets in 24 systems already known to contain a transiting planet. We model the transits due to the known planet in each system and subtract these models from lightcurves obtained with the SuperWASP survey instruments. These residual lightcurves are then searched for evidence of additional periodic transit events. Although we do not find any evidence for additional planets in any of the planetary systems studied, we are able to characterise our ability to find such planets by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Artificially generated transit signals corresponding to planets with a range of sizes and orbital periods were injected into the SuperWASP photometry and the resulting lightcurves searched for planets. As a result, the detection efficiency as a function of both the radius and orbital period of any second planet, is calculated. We determine that there is a good (> 50 per cent) chance of detecting additional, Saturn-sized planets in P ~ 10 d orbits around planet-hosting stars that have several seasons of SuperWASP photometry. Additionally, we confirm previous evidence of the rotational stellar variability of WASP-10, and refine the period of rotation. We find that the period of the rotation is 11.91 \pm 0.05 d, and the false alarm probability for this period is extremely low (~ 10^{-13}).
Anderson David R.
Collier Cameron Andrew
Hebb Leslie
Hellier Coel
Lister Tim A.
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