Abstract
We present the observation of a transit of the exoplanet TrES-3b by the newly commissioned robotic telescope TRAPPIST-North located at Oukaimeden Observatory (Morocco). The obtained light curve reaches a photometric precison 600 ppm. Its Bayesian analysis with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo code enables us to refine the radius of the planet to . These results demonstrate the high potential of TRAPPIST-North for high-photometry of exoplanet transits.
Highlights
When a planet crosses in front of its parent star’s disk, the observed brightness of the star drops by a small amount whose amplitude depend on the relative sizes of the star and the planet
TRAPPIST project TRAPPIST-North (TRansiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope [2] and [3]) is a 0.6 m robotic telescope that has started its operation at the Oukaimeden Observatory (Morocco) and done in collaboration with Cadi Ayyad University in June 2016
The stellar fluxes are extracted for eight different fixed apertures centered on these refined coordinates, we used an estimate of the sky background near the star
Summary
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