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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
卷 197, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/197/1/2
关键词
methods: statistical; planetary systems; planets and satellites: detection; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; techniques: miscellaneous
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNX08AR04G, HF-51272.01-A, HF-51267.01-A, NAS 5-26555]
- National Science Foundation [0707203]
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- STFC [ST/G002622/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G002622/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The architectures of multiple planet systems can provide valuable constraints on models of planet formation, including orbital migration, and excitation of orbital eccentricities and inclinations. NASA's Kepler mission has identified 1235 transiting planet candidates. The method of transit timing variations (TTVs) has already confirmed seven planets in two planetary systems. We perform a transit timing analysis of the Kepler planet candidates. We find that at least similar to 11% of planet candidates currently suitable for TTV analysis show evidence suggestive of TTVs, representing at least similar to 65 TTV candidates. In all cases, the time span of observations must increase for TTVs to provide strong constraints on planet masses and/or orbits, as expected based on N-body integrations of multiple transiting planet candidate systems (assuming circular and coplanar orbits). We find the fraction of planet candidates showing TTVs in this data set does not vary significantly with the number of transiting planet candidates per star, suggesting significant mutual inclinations and that many stars with a single transiting planet should host additional non-transiting planets. We anticipate that Kepler could confirm (or reject) at least similar to 12 systems with multiple transiting planet candidates via TTVs. Thus, TTVs will provide a powerful tool for confirming transiting planets and characterizing the orbital dynamics of low-mass planets. If Kepler observations were extended to at least seven years, then TTVs would provide much more precise constraints on the dynamics of systems with multiple transiting planets and would become sensitive to planets with orbital periods extending into the habitable zone of solar-type stars.
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