Transit timing effects due to an exomoon II

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2009-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2565v1

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 2009, Volume 396, Issue 3, pp. 1797-1804

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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In our previous paper, we evaluated the transit duration variation (TDV) effect for a co-aligned planet-moon system at an orbital inclination of i=90 degrees. Here, we will consider the effect for the more general case of i <= 90 degrees and an exomoon inclined from the planet-star plane by Euler rotation angles $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$. We find that the TDV signal has two major components, one due to the velocity variation effect described in our first paper and one new component due to transit impact parameter variation. By evaluating the dominant terms, we find the two effects are additive for prograde exomoon orbits, and deductive for retrograde orbits. This asymmetry could allow for future determination of the orbital sense of motion. We re-evaluate the ratio of TDV and TTV effects, $\eta$, in the more general case of an inclined planetary orbit with a circular orbiting moon and find that it is still possible to directly determine the moon's orbital separation from just the ratio of the two amplitudes, as first proposed in our previous paper.

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