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Determining Empirical Stellar Masses and Radii from Transits and Gaia Parallaxes as Illustrated by Spitzer Observations of KELT-11b

  • Authors: Thomas G. Beatty, Daniel J. Stevens, Karen A. Collins, Knicole D. Colón, David J. James, Laura Kreidberg, Joshua Pepper, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Robert J. Siverd, Keivan G. Stassun, and John F. Kielkopf

2017 The Astronomical Journal 154 25.

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Effect of differing extraction aperture radii on the initial fits to our Spitzer photometry. We selected an aperture of approximately 2.1 pixels (i.e., C = 0.0) as the optimum, based on it having the highest ﹩\mathrm{ln}(p)﹩ and lowest residual rms in our initial fits. The actual aperture size varied as the square-root of the noise pixel parameter in each image (Equation (1)). As demonstrated by the rightmost panels, the exact choice of aperture size does not significantly effect our results: the variation off all three of these parameters (black line) as a function of aperture size does not exceed the 1σ uncertainties we find in our final fit (blue shaded regions)—except for the value of ﹩{R}_{P}/{R}_{S}﹩ for small apertures.

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