WASP-14 b: Transit timing analysis of 19 light curves

Although WASP-14 b is one of the most massive and densest exoplanets on a tight and eccentric orbit, it has never been a target of photometric follow-up monitoring or dedicated observing campaigns. We report on new photometric transit observations of WASP-14 b obtained within the framework of Transi...

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Autores: Raetz, St., Maciejewski, G., Seeliger, M., Marka, C., Fernández, Matilde, Güver, T., Göğüş, E., Nowak, G., Vaňko, M., Berndt, A., Eisenbeiss, T., Mugrauer, M., Trepl, L., Gelszinnis, J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/391371
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/391371
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Planets and satellites: individual: WASP-14 b
Stars: individual: GSC 01482-00882
Planetary systems
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Sumario:Although WASP-14 b is one of the most massive and densest exoplanets on a tight and eccentric orbit, it has never been a target of photometric follow-up monitoring or dedicated observing campaigns. We report on new photometric transit observations of WASP-14 b obtained within the framework of Transit Timing Variations @ Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (TTV@YETI). We collected 19 light curves of 13 individual transit events using six telescopes located in five observatories distributed in Europe and Asia. From light-curve modelling, we determined the planetary, stellar, and geometrical properties of the system and found them in agreement with the values from the discovery paper. A test of the robustness of the transit times revealed that in case of a non-reproducible transit shape the uncertainties may be underestimated even with a wavelet-based error estimation methods. For the timing analysis, we included two publicly available transit times from 2007 and 2009. The long observation period of seven years (2007-2013) allowed us to refine the transit ephemeris. We derived an orbital period 1.2 s longer and 10 times more precise than the one given in the discovery paper. We found no significant periodic signal in the timing-residuals and, hence, no evidence for TTV in the system. © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.