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TWO TRANSITING LOW DENSITY SUB-SATURNS FROM K2

  • Authors: Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Eric D. Lopez, Katherine M. Deck, Benjamin J. Fulton, Ian J. M. Crossfield, David R. Ciardi, Eugene Chiang, Eve J. Lee, Howard Isaacson, Charles A. Beichman, Brad M. S. Hansen, Joshua E. Schlieder, and Evan Sinukoff

2016 The Astrophysical Journal 818 36.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

POSS2 red planets observed in 1991. K2-24 is in the center of the frame. The white circle shows the extent of the circular aperture used to extract the photometry of K2-24. No stars fall within our aperture that could dilute the light of K2-24. EPIC-203772026 sits just outside the boarder of our aperture. However, with ΔKp = 4.9 (EPIC catalog), it has negligible effect on the transit radius. EPIC-203772026 falls outside of the HIRES slit (width = 0.86 arcsec). We rule out possibility that the observed transits are due to diluted eclipses of EPIC-203772026, because we observe the reflex velocities of K2-24 due to planetary mass companions in our HIRES spectra (see Section 3.3).

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