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Characterization of a Set of Small Planets with TESS and CHEOPS and an Analysis of Photometric Performance
Dominic, Oddo
Diana,Dragomir
Brandeker, Alexis
Osborn, Hugh P
Collins, Karen
Stassun, Keivan G.
Bieryla, Allyson
Howell- B., Steve
Ciardi, David
Quinn, Samuel
Almenara, Jose
Briceño, César
Collins, Kevin
Colón, Knicole
Conti, Dennis
Crouzet, Nicolas
Furlan, Elise
Gan, Tianjun
Gnilka, Cristal L.
Goeke-Es, Robert
González, Erica
Mallory, Harris
Jenkins, Jon
Jensen, Eric
Latham, David
Ley, Nicolás
Lund, Michael
Mann, Andrew
Bob, Massey
Murgas, Felipe
Ricker, George
Relles, Howard
Rowden, Pamela
Schwarz, Richard
Schlieder, Josué
Shporer, Avi
Seager, Sara
Srdoc, Gregor
Torres, Guillermo
Twicken, Joseph
Vanderspek, Roland
Winn, Josué
Ziegler, Carl
Astronomical Journal
2023
The radius valley carries implications for how the atmospheres of small planets form and evolve, but this feature is visible only with highly precise characterizations of many small planets. We present the characterization of nine planets and one planet candidate with both NASA TESS and ESA CHEOPS observations, which adds to the overall population of planets bordering the radius valley. While five of our planets—TOI 118 b, TOI 262 b, TOI 455 b, TOI 560 b, and TOI 562 b—have already been published, we vet and validate transit signals as planetary using follow-up observations for four new TESS planets, including TOI 198 b, TOI 244 b, TOI 444 b, and TOI 470 b. While a three times increase in primary mirror size should mean that one CHEOPS transit yields an equivalent model uncertainty in transit depth as about nine TESS transits in the case that the star is equally as bright in both bands, we find that our CHEOPS transits typically yield uncertainties equivalent to between two and 12 TESS transits, averaging 5.9 equivalent transits. Therefore, we find that while our fits to CHEOPS transits provide overall lower uncertainties on transit depth and better precision relative to fits to TESS transits, our uncertainties for these fits do not always match expected predictions given photon-limited noise. We find no correlations between number of equivalent transits and any physical parameters, indicating that this behavior is not strictly systematic, but rathe might be due to other factors such as in-transit gaps during CHEOPS visits or nonhomogeneous detrending of CHEOPS light curves.
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