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Getting More For Your Money: Identifying and Confirming Long-Period Planets with Kepler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Jennifer C. Yee  and
B. Scott Gaudi
Jennifer C. Yee
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, The Ohio State University140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43212, USA email: jyee@astronomy.ohio-state.edu, gaudi@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
B. Scott Gaudi
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, The Ohio State University140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43212, USA email: jyee@astronomy.ohio-state.edu, gaudi@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
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Abstract

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Kepler will monitor enough stars that it is likely to detect single transits of planets with periods longer than the mission lifetime. We show that by combining the Kepler photometry of such transits with precise radial velocity (RV) observations taken over ~3 months, and assuming circular orbits, it is possible to estimate the periods of these transiting planets to better than 20% (for planets with radii greater than that of Neptune) and the masses to within a factor of 2 (for planet masses mp ≥ MJup). We also explore the effects of eccentricity on these quantities.

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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S253: Transiting Planets , May 2008 , pp. 560 - 563
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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