The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons

• Main Author: Kipping, David M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Astrobiology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of an "exomoon" is notably absent. In this thesis, David Kipping shows how transiting planets may be...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Extrasolar Moons
• 3 The Transiting Planet
• 4 Timing the Transit
• 5 Transit Distortions
• 6 Transit Timing Effects due to an Exomoon
• 7 Detectability of Habitable Exomoons with Kepler-Class Photometry
• 8 Conclusions & Future Work
• A Notations & Acronyms.