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Improving Stellar and Planetary Parameters of Transiting Planet Systems: The Case of TrES‐2

  • Authors: Alessandro Sozzetti, Guillermo Torres, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Matthew J. Holman, Joshua N. Winn, John B. Laird, and Francis T. O'Donovan

Sozzetti et al. 2007 The Astrophysical Journal 664 1190.

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Caption: Fig. 4.

Model isochrones from the Yonsei‐Yale series by Yi et al. (2001) and Demarque et al. (2004), corresponding to ages of 1–9 Gyr (left to right), for the measured composition of ﹩[ \mathrm{Fe}\,/ \mathrm{H}\,] =-0.15﹩, shown with the observational constraints. Top: The measurement on the vertical axis is the spectroscopically determined value of ﹩\mathrm{log}\,g﹩, which provides only a weak handle on the stellar radius and no useful constraint on age. Bottom: The use of the photometrically determined value of ﹩a/ R_{\star }﹩ from the light‐curve analysis of Holman et al. (2007b) instead of surface gravity provides a much stronger constraint on the age and radius (by about a factor of 5).

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