Bibcode
von Essen, C.; Ofir, A.; Dreizler, S.; Agol, E.; Freudenthal, J.; Hernández, J.; Wedemeyer, S.; Parkash, V.; Deeg, H. J.; Hoyer, S.; Morris, B. M.; Becker, A. C.; Sun, L.; Gu, S. H.; Herrero, E.; Tal-Or, L.; Poppenhaeger, K.; Mallonn, M.; Albrecht, S.; Khalafinejad, S.; Boumis, P.; Delgado-Correal, C.; Fabrycky, D. C.; Janulis, R.; Lalitha, S.; Liakos, A.; Mikolaitis, Š.; Moyano D'Angelo, M. L.; Sokov, E.; Pakštienė, E.; Popov, A.; Krushinsky, V.; Ribas, I.; Rodríguez S., M. M.; Rusov, S.; Sokova, I.; Tautvaišienė, G.; Wang, X.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 615, id.A79, 15 pp.
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2018
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Description
During its four years of photometric observations, the Kepler space
telescope detected thousands of exoplanets and exoplanet candidates. One
of Kepler's greatest heritages has been the confirmation and
characterization of hundreds of multi-planet systems via transit timing
variations (TTVs). However, there are many interesting candidate systems
displaying TTVs on such long timescales that the existing Kepler
observations are of insufficient length to confirm and characterize them
by means of this technique. To continue with Kepler's unique work, we
have organized the "Kepler Object of Interest Network" (KOINet), a
multi-site network formed of several telescopes located throughout
America, Europe, and Asia. The goals of KOINet are to complete the TTV
curves of systems where Kepler did not cover the interaction timescales
well, to dynamically prove that some candidates are true planets (or
not), to dynamically measure the masses and bulk densities of some
planets, to find evidence for non-transiting planets in some of the
systems, to extend Kepler's baseline adding new data with the main
purpose of improving current models of TTVs, and to build a platform
that can observe almost anywhere on the northern hemisphere, at almost
any time. KOINet has been operational since March 2014. Here we show
some promising first results obtained from analyzing seven primary
transits of KOI-0410.01, KOI-0525.01, KOI-0760.01, and KOI-0902.01, in
addition to the Kepler data acquired during the first and second
observing seasons of KOINet. While carefully choosing the targets we set
demanding constraints on timing precision (at least 1 min) and
photometric precision (as good as one part per thousand) that were
achieved by means of our observing strategies and data analysis
techniques. For KOI-0410.01, new transit data revealed a turnover of its
TTVs. We carried out an in-depth study of the system, which is
identified in the NASA Data Validation Report as a false positive. Among
others, we investigated a gravitationally bound hierarchical triple star
system and a planet-star system. While the simultaneous transit fitting
of ground- andspace-based data allowed for a planet solution, we could
not fully reject the three-star scenario. New data, already scheduled in
the upcoming 2018 observing season, will set tighter constraints on the
nature of the system.
Ground-based photometry is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp
to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/615/A79
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