Isotopic enrichment of forming planetary systems from supernova pollution

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 462:4 (2016) 3979-3992

Authors:

Tim Lichtenberg, Richard J Parker, Michael R Meyer

Detection of the secondary eclipse of Qatar-1b in the Ks band

Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 595 (2016) A61

Authors:

Patricia Cruz, David Barrado, Jorge Lillo-Box, Marcos Diaz, Jayne Birkby, Mercedes López-Morales, Jonathan J Fortney

Abstract:

Aims. Qatar-1b is a close-orbiting hot Jupiter (Rp ≃ 1.18 RJMp ≃ 1.33 MJ) around a metal-rich K-dwarf, with orbital separation and period of 0.023 AU and 1.42 days. We have observed the secondary eclipse of this exoplanet in the Ks band with the objective of deriving a brightness temperature for the planet and providing further constraints to the orbital configuration of the system.

Methods. We obtained near-infrared photometric data from the ground by using the OMEGA2000 instrument at the 3.5 m telescope at Calar Alto (Spain) in staring mode, with the telescope defocused. We have used principal component analysis (PCA) to identify correlated systematic trends in the data. A Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis was performed to model the correlated systematics and fit for the secondary eclipse of Qatar-1b using a previously developed occultation model. We adopted the prayer bead method to assess the effect of red noise on the derived parameters.

Results. We measured a secondary eclipse depth of 0.196%+ 0.071%−0.051%, which indicates a brightness temperature in the Ks band for the planet of 1885+ 212-168 K. We also measured a small deviation in the central phase of the secondary eclipse of −0.0079+ 0.0162-0.0043, which leads to a value for ecosω of −0.0123+ 0.0252-0.0067. However, this last result needs to be confirmed with more data.

Detection of secondary eclipses of WASP-10b and Qatar-1b in the Ks band and the correlation between Ks-band temperature and stellar activity.

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press (CUP) 12:S328 (2016) 363-370

Authors:

Patricia Cruz, David Barrado, Jorge Lillo-Box, Marcos Diaz, Mercedes López-Morales, Jayne Birkby, Jonathan J Fortney, Simon Hodgkin

Low-mass eclipsing binaries in the WFCAM Transit Survey

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press (CUP) 12:S328 (2016) 124-126

Authors:

Patricia Cruz, Marcos Diaz, David Barrado, Jayne Birkby

On the energy dissipation rate at the inner edge of circumbinary discs

(2016)

Authors:

Caroline Terquem, John CB Papaloizou