Bibcode
Hoyer, S.; López-Morales, M.; Rojo, P.; Nascimbeni, V.; Hidalgo, S.; Astudillo-Defru, N.; Concha, F.; Contreras, Y.; Servajean, E.; Hinse, T. C.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 434, Issue 1, p.46-58
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2013
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27
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24
Description
We report 12 new transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-4b from the
Transit Monitoring in the South (TraMoS) project. These transits are
combined with all previously published transit data for this planet to
provide an improved radius measurement of Rp = 1.395 ±
0.022Rjup and improved transit ephemerides. In a new
homogeneous analysis in search for transit timing variations (TTVs) we
find no evidence of those with rms amplitudes larger than 20 s over a
4-yr time span. This lack of TTVs rules out the presence of additional
planets in the system with masses larger than about 2.5, 2.0 and 1.0
M⊕ around the 1:2, 5:3 and 2:1 orbital resonances. Our
search for the variation of other parameters, such as orbital
inclination and transit depth, also yields negative results over the
total time span of the transit observations. Finally, we perform a
simple study of stellar spots configurations of the system and conclude
that the star rotational period is about 34 d.
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