Revisiting the secondary eclipses of KELT-1b using TESS observations

Abstract

We present the characterization of the transiting planet KELT-1b % ($R_p\simeq 1.15R_J,M_p\simeq 27.23M_J$) using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). % during cycle $2$ and sector $17$. Our light curve model includes primary transit and secondary eclipse. Here, we model the systematic noise using Gaussian processes (GPs) and fit it to the data using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. Modelling of the TESS light curve returns a planet-to-star radius ratio, $p=$ $0.07652_{-0.00028}^{+0.00029}$ and a relatively large secondary eclipse depth of $388_{-13}^{+12}$ ppm. The transit ephemeris of KELT-1b is updated using the MCMC method. Finally, we complement our work by searching for transit timing variations (TTVs) for KELT-1b. We do not find significant variations from the constant-period models in our transit time data.

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