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Issue A&A
Volume 500, Number 3, June IV 2009
Page(s) L45 - L49
Section Letters
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811424
Published online 27 May 2009

A&A 500, L45-L49 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811424

Letter

Detection of orbital parameter changes in the TrES-2 exoplanet?

D. Mislis and J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany
    e-mail: mdimitri@hs.uni-hamburg.de

Received 26 November 2008 / Accepted 18 May 2009

Abstract
We report a possible change in the orbit parameters of the TrES-2 exoplanet. With a period of 2.470621 days, the TrES-2 exoplanet exhibits almost “grazing” transits 110.4 min duration as measured in 2006 by Holman and collaborators. We observed two transits of TrES-2 in 2008 using the 1.2 m Oskar-Lühning telescope (OLT) of Hamburg observatory employing CCD photometry in an i-band and a near to R-band filter. A careful lightcurve analysis including a re-analysis of the 2006 observations shows that the current transit duration has shortened since 2006 by ${\approx}$3.16 min. Although the new observations were taken in a different filter we argue that the observed change in transit duration time cannot be attributed to the treatment of limb darkening. If we assume the stellar and planetary radii to be constant, a change in orbit inclination is the most likely cause of this change in transit duration.


Key words: stars: planetary systems -- techniques: photometric



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