HST/FGS Photometry of Planetary Transits of HD 209458
Author(s) -
A. Schultz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.1774516
Subject(s) - photometry (optics) , physics , light curve , transit (satellite) , hubble space telescope , photometer , planet , astronomy , limb darkening , opacity , stars , optics , public transport , political science , law
We present the data, and modeling and analysis results from the photometric monitoring of ve planetary transits of HD 209458 using the Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We have now included the output from all four FGS photometers in our data reduction and analysis increasing our S/N over our previous results. We have modeled the transits as an opaque spherical planet in a circular orbit about a limb darkened spherical star and simultaneously t the model to the FGS data and published STIS transit data (Brown et al., 2001). The measured light curves show small features, a fraction of the transit depth. Some of these faint bumps and ripples appear to be real. We present an analysis of the FGS transit light curves, showing the results of the model tting, a search for a possible planetary satellite, and an indication of which small features in the light curve we feel are not instrumental noise.
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