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Non-sinusoidal transit timing variations for the exoplanet HAT-P-12b

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Considering the importance of investigating the transit timing variations (TTVs) of transiting exoplanets, we present a follow-up study of HAT-P-12b. We include six new light curves observed between 2011 and… Click to show full abstract

Considering the importance of investigating the transit timing variations (TTVs) of transiting exoplanets, we present a follow-up study of HAT-P-12b. We include six new light curves observed between 2011 and 2015 from three different observatories, in association with 25 light curves taken from the published literature. The sample of the data used thus covers a time span of ∼ 10.2 years with a large coverage of epochs (1160) for the transiting events of the exoplanet HAT-P-12b. The light curves are utilized to determine the orbital parameters and conduct an investigation of possible TTVs. The new linear ephemeris shows a large value of reduced χ 2, i.e. χred2(23) = 7.93, and the sinusoidal fitting using the prominent frequency coming from a periodogram shows a reduced χ 2 around 4. Based on these values and the corresponding O – C diagrams, we suspect the presence of a possible non-sinusoidal TTV in this planetary system. Finally, we find that a scenario with an additional non-transiting exoplanet could explain this TTV with an even smaller reduced χ 2 value of around 2.

Keywords: timing variations; hat 12b; non sinusoidal; transit timing; exoplanet hat

Journal Title: Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Year Published: 2020

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