Detecting The Magnetic Fields Of The Transiting Exoplanets Corot-1b And Wasp-3b

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Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21933908t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #339.08

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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It is possible to detect the magnetic field of a transiting exoplanet by observing asymmetries in their near-UV and optical light curves (Vidotto et al. 2011). We observed the primary transits of CoRoT-1b and WASP-3b with the Steward Observatory 61" Kuiper Telescope using near-UV and optical filters in order to detect this phenomenon. Preliminary analysis of this data shows an asymmetry between their near-UV and optical ingress times. Future analysis of our data should help provide some of the first constraints on the magnetic fields of transiting exoplanets.

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