The refined physical parameters of transiting exoplanet system HAT-P-24

Xiao-Bin Wang, Sheng-Hong Gu, Andrew Collier Cameron, Hong-Bo Tan, Ho-Keung Hui, Chi-Tai Kwok, Bill Yeung, Kam-Cheung Leung

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Abstract

The transiting exoplanet system HAT-P-24 was observed by using CCD cameras at Yunnan Observatory and Hokoon Astronomical Centre, China in 2010 and 2012. In order to enhance the signal to noise ratio of transit events, the observed data are corrected for systematic errors according to Collier Cameron et al.'s coarse de-correlation and Tamuz et al.'s SYSREM algorithms. Three new complete transit light curves are analyzed by means of the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, and the new physical parameters of the system are derived. They are consistent with the old ones from the discovered paper except for a new larger radius Rp = 1.364 RJ of HAT-P-24b, which confirms its inflated nature. By combining the five available epochs of mid-transit derived from complete transit light curves, the orbital period of HAT-P-24b is refined to P = 3.3552479 d and no obvious transit timing variation signal can be found from these five transit events during 2010–2012.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)593-603
JournalResearch in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2013

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