Analysis of selected Kepler Mission planetary light curves

Rhodes M. D., Budding E.

ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, vol.351, no.2, pp.451-471, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 351 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s10509-014-1822-1
  • Journal Name: ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.451-471
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We have modified the graphical user interfaced close binary system analysis program CurveFit to the form WinKepler and applied it to 16 representative planetary candidate light curves found in the NASA Exoplanet Archive (NEA) at the Caltech website , with an aim to compare different analytical approaches. WinKepler has parameter options for a realistic physical model, including gravity-brightening and structural parameters derived from the relevant Radau equation. We tested our best-fitting parameter-sets for formal determinacy and adequacy.