Transiting exoplanet TrES-3b CCD UBVR photometry Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Turner J.D.
  2. Smart B.M.
  3. Hardegree-Ullman K.K.
  4. Carleton T.M.,Walker-Lafollette A.M.
  5. Crawford B.E.
  6. Smith C.-T.W.
  7. McGraw A.M.,Small L.C.
  8. Rocchetto M.
  9. Cunningham K.I.
  10. Towner A.P.M.
  11. Zellem R.,Robertson A.N.
  12. Guvenen B.C.
  13. Schwarz K.R.
  14. Hardegree-Ullman E.E.,Collura D.
  15. Henz T.N.
  16. Lejoly C.
  17. Richardson L.L.
  18. Weinand M.A.,Taylor J.M.
  19. Daugherty M.J.
  20. Wilson A.A.
  21. Austin C.L.
  22. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We observed nine primary transits of the hot Jpiter TrES-3b in several optical and near-UV photometric bands from 2009 June to 2012 April in an attempt to detect its magnetic field. Vidotto, Jardine and Helling suggest that the magnetic field of TrES-3b can be constrained if its near-UV light curve shows an early ingress compared to its optical light curve, while its egress remains unaffected. Predicted magnetic field strengths of Jupiter-like planets should range between 8G and 30G. Using these magnetic field values and an assumed B* of 100G, the Vidotto et al. method predicts a timing difference of 5-11min. We did not detect an early ingress in our three nights of near-UV observations, despite an average cadence of 68 s and an average photometric precision of 3.7mmag. However, we determined an upper limit of TrES-3b's magnetic field strength to range between 0.013 and 1.3G (for a 1-100G magnetic field strength range for the host star, TrES-3) using a timing difference of 138s derived from the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. To verify our results of an abnormally small magnetic field strength for TrES-3b and to further constrain the techniques of Vidotto et al., we propose future observations of TrES-3b with other platforms capable of achieving a shorter near-UV cadence. We also present a refinement of the physical parameters of TrES-3b, an updated ephemeris and its first published near-UV light curve. We find that the near-UV planetary radius of Rp=1.386+0.248-0.144RJup is consistent with the planet's optical radius.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. solar-system-planets
  3. ccd-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013MNRAS.428..678T
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/678
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74280678

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2016-04-21T09:12:11Z
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