ARPS Exoplanet Division Webinar
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 10:30 - 15:30
Variations on an Exoplanet Theme – Part 2
A webinar meeting of the Exoplanets Division of the Asteroids and Remote Planets section.
The Zoom webinar link will be posted here in advance of the meeting.
The meeting will also be live-streamed to the BAA YouTube channel.
Programme
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Introduction to morning session and TTV recap – Roger Dymock |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Analysis of TTVs using Exoplanetpie – Peter Vuylsteke Demo of a new software package for analysing Transit Timing Variations |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Where have all the Tatooines gone? A geometrical perspective on the detection of exoplanets orbiting non-eclipsing binaries – Paul Dooley Exoplanets in orbit around binary stars (sometimes known as “Tatooines”) form a fascinating category of exoplanetary systems. To date, photometric detection of such exoplanets has concentrated on eclipsing binary systems. However, most binary systems do NOT eclipse, meaning that a significant number of potential Tatooines may be going undetected. Here we use simulation to review and illustrate the geometry and challenges in detection of exoplanets orbiting non-eclipsing binary systems. |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Introduction to afternoon session – Rodney Buckland |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Stellar variability and the PLATO mission – Karen Burgess |
| 14:20 – 14:30 | Break |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Reducing effects of stellar variability using Lomb-Scargle techniques – Daniel Barbos Can Earth-based telescopes help reduce noise in data from space telescopes by modelling stellar variability using Lomb-Scargle techniques? |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | The Kepler 88 exoplanetary system – Roger Dymock Demo of LCTools software illustrating Transit timing, duration, and possibly depth, variations |