Transit Timing Variations of Five Transiting Planets

TL;DR

This paper analyzes transit timing variations of five transiting exoplanets to detect potential unseen bodies, updating their ephemeris using high-precision transit data from various observers.

Contribution

It provides updated ephemeris and transit timing variations for five exoplanets using a comprehensive dataset from amateur and professional observations.

Findings

Updated transit timings for five exoplanets.

Identification of potential gravitational influences.

Enhanced accuracy in planetary ephemeris.

Abstract

Transiting planets provide a unique opportunity to search for unseen additional bodies gravitationally bound to a system. It is possible to detect the motion of the center-of-mass of the observed transiting planet-host star duo due to the gravitational tugs of the unseen bodies from the Roemer delay. In order to achieve the goal, determination of the mid-times of the transits of the planets in high precision and accuracy and correct them for the orbital motion of the Earth is a primary condition. We present transit timing variations and update the ephemeris information of 5 transiting planets; HAT-P-23b, WASP-103b, GJ-1214b, WASP-69b, and KELT-3b within this contribution, based on all the quality transit light curves from amateur and professional observers, converted to Dynamic Barycentric Julian Days (BJD-TDB).