Bibcode
Colon, Knicole D.; Zhou, George; Shporer, Avi; Collins, Karen A.; Bieryla, Allyson; Latham, David W.; Espinoza, Nestor; Murgas, F.; Pattarakijwanich, Petchara; Awiphan, Supachai; TECH Collaboration
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #232, id.#111.02
Fecha de publicación:
6
2018
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Descripción
Of the thousands of exoplanets known, only three disintegrating planets
have been identified. These disintegrating planets appear to have tails
of dusty material that produce asymmetric transit shapes. K2-22b is one
of these few disintegrating planets discovered to date, and its light
curve not only displays highly variable transit depths but also uniquely
displays evidence of a leading dust tail. Here, we present results from
a large ground-based photometric observing campaign of the K2-22 system
that took place between December 2016 and May 2017, which we use to
investigate the evolution of the transit of K2-22b. Last observed in
early 2015, in these new observations we recover the transit around the
expected time and measure a typical depth of <1%. We find that the
transit depth has decreased compared to observations from 2014 and 2015,
where the maximum transit depth measured at that time was ~1.3%. These
new observations support ongoing variability in the transit depth,
shape, and time of K2-22b, although the overall shallowness of the
transit makes a detailed analysis of the transit shape and timing
difficult. In addition, we find no strong evidence of
wavelength-dependent transit depths for epochs where we have
simultaneous coverage at multiple wavelengths. Given the observed
decrease in the transit depth between 2015 and 2017, we encourage
continued high-precision photometric monitoring of this system in order
to further constrain the evolution timescale and to aid comparative
studies with the other few disintegrating planets known.