Exoplanet System Kepler-2 with comparisons to Kepler-1 and 13

Abstract

We have carried out an intensive study of photometric (Kepler Mission) and spectroscopic data on the system Kepler-2 (HAT-P-7A) using the dedicated software WinFitter. The mean individual data-point error of the normalized flux values for this system is 0.00015, leading to the model's specification for the mean reference flux to an accuracy of $\sim$0.5 ppm. This testifies to the remarkably high accuracy of the binned data-set, derived from over 1.8 million individual observations. Spectroscopic data are reported with the similarly high-accuracy radial velocity amplitude measure of $\sim$2 m s${}^{-1}$. The analysis includes discussion of the fitting quality and model adequacy. Our derived absolute parameters for Kepler-2 are as follows: $M_p$ (Jupiter) 1.80 $\pm$ 0.13; $R_{\star }$ 1.46 $\pm 0.08\times 10^6$ km; $R_p$ 1.15 $\pm 0.07\times 10^5$ km. These values imply somewhat larger and less condensed bodies than previously catalogued, but within reasonable error estimates of such literature parameters. We find also tidal, reflection and Doppler effect parameters, showing that the optimal model specification differs slightly from a `cleaned' model that reduces the standard deviation of the $\sim$3600 binned light curve points to less than 0.9 ppm. We consider these slight differences, making comparisons with the hot-jupiter systems Kepler-1 (TrES-2) and 13.

Accepted by Astrophysics and Space Science. Corrected some figure references in text

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