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A cool starspot or a second transiting planet in the TrES-1 system?

2008; EDP Sciences; Volume: 494; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1051/0004-6361

ISSN

1432-0746

Autores

M. Rabus, R. Alonso, Juan Antonio Belmonte, H. J. Deeg, Ronald L. Gilliland, J. M. Almenara, Timothy M. Brown, David Charbonneau, Georgi Mandushev,

Tópico(s)

Astro and Planetary Science

Resumo

Aims. We investigate the origin of a flux increase found during a transit of TrES-1, observed with the HST (Hubble Space Telescope). This feature in the HST light curve cannot be attributed to noise and is supposedly a dark area on the stellar surface of the host star eclipsed by TrES-1 during its transit. We investigate the likelihood of two possible hypotheses for its origin. A starspot or a second transiting planet.

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