Bibcode
Hoyer, S.; López-Morales, M.; Rojo, P.; Minniti, D.; Adams, E. R.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 455, Issue 2, p.1334-1340
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2016
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14
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Description
In the context of the Transit Monitoring in the South project, we
present nine new transit observations of the exoplanet OGLE-TR-113b
observed with the Gemini South, Magellan Baade, Danish-1.54 m and
Southern Astrophysical Research telescopes. We perform a homogeneous
analysis of these new transits together with 10 literature transits to
probe into the potential detection of an orbital decay previously
reported for this planet. Our new observations extend the transit
monitoring baseline for this system by 6 yr, to a total of more than 13
yr. With our timing analysis we obtained a dot{P}=-1.0 ± 6.0 ms
yr-1, which rejects previous hints of a larger orbital decay
for OGLE-TR-113b. With our updated value of dot{P} we can discard tidal
quality factors of Q⋆ < 105 for its host
star. Additionally, we calculate a 1σ dispersion of the transit
timing variations of 42 s over the 13 yr baseline, which discards
additional planets in the system more massive than 0.5-3.0
M⊕ in 1:2, 5:3, 2:1 and 3:1 Mean Motion Resonances with
OGLE-TR-113b. Finally, with the joint analysis of the 19 light curves we
update transit parameters, such as the relative semimajor axis a / R_s =
6.44^{+0.04}_{-0.05}, the planet-to-star radius ratio R_p / R_s
=0.14436^{+0.00096}_{-0.00088}, and constrains its orbital inclination
to i =89.27^{+0.51}_{-0.68} deg.