Improving Transit Predictions of Known Exoplanets with TERMS

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May 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #128.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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Transiting planet discoveries have yielded a plethora of information regarding the internal structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets. These discoveries have largely been restricted to the low-periastron distance regime due to the bias inherent in the geometric transit probability. Monitoring known radial velocity planets at predicted transit times is a proven method of detecting transits, and presents an avenue through which to explore the mass-radius relationship of exoplanets in new regions of period/periastron space for the brightest exoplanet host stars. Here we describe transit window calculations for known radial velocity planets, techniques for refining their transit ephemerides, and present results for radial velocity planets which have been successfully monitored during predicted transit times. These methods are currently being implemented by the Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS).

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