Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-06-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 25 pages, 7 tables, 28 figures. The physical properties of the 30 transiting planetary syst
Scientific paper
I derive the physical properties of 30 transiting extrasolar planetary systems using a homogeneous analysis of published data. The light curves are modelled with the JKTEBOP code, with attention paid to limb darkening and eccentricity. The light from some systems is contaminated by faint nearby stars, which if ignored will systematically bias the results. I show that this must be accounted for using external measurements of the amount of contaminating light. A contamination of 5% is enough to make the measurement of a planetary radius 2% too low. The physical properties of the 30 transiting systems are obtained by interpolating in stellar model predictions to find the best match to their measured quantities. The error budgets are used to compile a list of systems which would benefit from additional observations. The systematic errors arising from the inclusion of stellar models are assessed by using five different theoretical models. This model dependence sets a lower limit on the accuracy of measurements of the system properties, and at worst is 1% for the stellar mass. The correlations of planetary surface gravity and mass with orbital period have significance levels of only 3.1 sigma and 2.3 sigma. The division of planets into two classes based on Safronov number is increasingly blurred. Most of the objects studied here would benefit from more photometry and/or spectroscopy, as well as a better understanding of low-mass stars.
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