Detection of Period Variations in Extrasolar Transiting Planet OGLE-TR-111b
Two consecutive transits of planetary companion OGLE-TR-111b were observed in the I band. Combining these observations with data from the literature, we find that the timing of the transits cannot be explained by a constant period and that the observed variations cannot be originated by the presence...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Chile |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/236903 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10533/236903 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Sumario: | Two consecutive transits of planetary companion OGLE-TR-111b were observed in the I band. Combining these observations with data from the literature, we find that the timing of the transits cannot be explained by a constant period and that the observed variations cannot be originated by the presence of a satellite. However, a perturbing planet with the mass of the Earth in an exterior orbit could explain the observations if the orbit of OGLE-TR-111b is eccentric. We also show that the eccentricity needed to explain the observations is not ruled out by the radial velocity data found in the literature. |
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