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astro-ph.EP2016★ 38 cited
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Earth's Solar Transit Zone
René Heller, Ralph E. Pudritz
Over the past few years, astronomers have detected thousands of planets and candidate planets by observing their periodic transits in front of their host stars. Related methods mig…
astro-ph.EP2016★ 33 cited
Predictable patterns in planetary transit timing variations and transit duration variations due to exomoons
René Heller, Michael Hippke, Ben Placek +2
We present new ways to identify single and multiple moons around extrasolar planets using planetary transit timing variations (TTVs) and transit duration variations (TDVs). For pla…
astro-ph.EP2016★ 24 cited
Modeling the Orbital Sampling Effect of Extrasolar Moons
René Heller, Michael Hippke, Brian Jackson
The orbital sampling effect (OSE) appears in phase-folded transit light curves of extrasolar planets with moons. Analytical OSE models have hitherto neglected stellar limb darkenin…