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Analytic approximations for transit light curve observables, uncertainties, and covariances

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Carter, Joshua Adam; Yee, Jennifer C.; Eastman, Jason; Gaudi, B. Scott; Winn, Joshua Nathan
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Abstract
The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to have analytic approximations for the parameters as well as their uncertainties and covariances. Here we give such formulas, for the case of an exoplanet transiting a star with a uniform brightness distribution. When limb darkening is significant, our parameter sets are still useful, although our analytic formulas underpredict the covariances and uncertainties.
Date issued
2009-02
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51811
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation
Carter, Joshua A. et al. “Analytic approximations for transit light curve observables and uncertainties.” Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 4.Symposium S253 (2008): 392-393.
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
1743-9213

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