Transit timing observations from Kepler – III. Confirmation of four multiple planet systems by a Fourier-domain study of anticorrelated transit timing variations

  1. Jason H. Steffen1,*,
  2. Daniel C. Fabrycky2,*,
  3. Eric B. Ford3,
  4. Joshua A. Carter4,*,
  5. Jean-Michel Désert4,
  6. Francois Fressin4,
  7. Matthew J. Holman4,
  8. Jack J. Lissauer5,
  9. Althea V. Moorhead1,
  10. Jason F. Rowe5,6,
  11. Darin Ragozzine4,
  12. William F. Welsh7,
  13. Natalie M. Batalha8,
  14. William J. Borucki5,
  15. Lars A. Buchhave9,
  16. Steve Bryson5,
  17. Douglas A. Caldwell5,6,
  18. David Charbonneau4,
  19. David R. Ciardi7,
  20. William D. Cochran10,
  21. Michael Endl10,
  22. Mark E. Everett11,
  23. Thomas N. Gautier III12,
  24. Ron L. Gilliland13,
  25. Forrest R. Girouard5,14,
  26. Jon M. Jenkins5,6,
  27. Elliott Horch15,
  28. Steve B. Howell5,
  29. Howard Isaacson16,
  30. Todd C. Klaus5,14,
  31. David G. Koch5,
  32. David W. Latham4,
  33. Jie Li5,6,
  34. Philip Lucas17,
  35. Phillip J. MacQueen10,
  36. Geoffrey W. Marcy16,
  37. Sean McCauliff18,
  38. Christopher K. Middour5,14,
  39. Robert L. Morris5,6,
  40. Fergal R. Mullally5,6,
  41. Samuel N. Quinn4,
  42. Elisa V. Quintana5,6,
  43. Avi Shporer9,19,
  44. Martin Still5,19,
  45. Peter Tenenbaum5,6,
  46. Susan E. Thompson5,6,
  47. Joseph D. Twicken5,6,
  48. Jeffery Van Cleve5,6

Article first published online: 22 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20467.x

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume 421, Issue 3, pages 2342–2354, April 2012

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Steffen, J. H., Fabrycky, D. C., Ford, E. B., Carter, J. A., Désert, J.-M., Fressin, F., Holman, M. J., Lissauer, J. J., Moorhead, A. V., Rowe, J. F., Ragozzine, D., Welsh, W. F., Batalha, N. M., Borucki, W. J., Buchhave, L. A., Bryson, S., Caldwell, D. A., Charbonneau, D., Ciardi, D. R., Cochran, W. D., Endl, M., Everett, M. E., Gautier, T. N., Gilliland, R. L., Girouard, F. R., Jenkins, J. M., Horch, E., Howell, S. B., Isaacson, H., Klaus, T. C., Koch, D. G., Latham, D. W., Li, J., Lucas, P., MacQueen, P. J., Marcy, G. W., McCauliff, S., Middour, C. K., Morris, R. L., Mullally, F. R., Quinn, S. N., Quintana, E. V., Shporer, A., Still, M., Tenenbaum, P., Thompson, S. E., Twicken, J. D. and Van Cleve, J. (2012), Transit timing observations from Kepler – III. Confirmation of four multiple planet systems by a Fourier-domain study of anticorrelated transit timing variations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421: 2342–2354. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20467.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, PO Box 500, MS 127, Batavia, IL 60510, USA

  2. 2

    UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

  3. 3

    Astronomy Department, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Sciences Center, Gainesville, FL 32111, USA

  4. 4

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

  5. 5

    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA

  6. 6

    SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

  7. 7

    NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

  8. 8

    Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-1221, USA

  9. 9

    Department of Physics, Broida Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

  10. 10

    McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78730, USA

  11. 11

    National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

  12. 12

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

  13. 13

    Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

  14. 14

    Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA

  15. 15

    Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA

  16. 16

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  17. 17

    Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB

  18. 18

    San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA

  19. 19

    Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Goleta, CA 93117, USA

* E-mail: jsteffen@fnal.gov
Hubble Fellow.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 APR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 22 FEB 2012
  3. Accepted 2011 December 30. Received 2011 December 26; in original form 2011 December 9

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Keywords:

  • methods: data analysis;
  • celestial mechanics;
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ABSTRACT

We present a method to confirm the planetary nature of objects in systems with multiple transiting exoplanet candidates. This method involves a Fourier-domain analysis of the deviations in the transit times from a constant period that result from dynamical interactions within the system. The combination of observed anticorrelations in the transit times and mass constraints from dynamical stability allow us to claim the discovery of four planetary systems, Kepler-25, Kepler-26, Kepler-27 and Kepler-28, containing eight planets and one additional planet candidate.

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