Poster Presentation

Exploring Transit Light Curves of Planetary Systems with Exomoons

Author(s): Wen-Chi Cheng(Department of Physics and Institute of Astronomy, NTHU, HsinChu,Taiwan); Ing-Guey Jiang(Department of Physics and Institute of Astronomy, NTHU, HsinChu, Taiwan; Center for Informatics and Computation in Astronomy(CICA), NTHU, HsinChu,Taiwan)

Presenter: Wen-Chi Cheng (National Tsing Hua University)

It is known that the photometric transit observations have made a significant contribution on the detection of new exoplanets. In fact, it is this method to bring total number of exoplanets up to several thousands. Moreover, transit observations have also shown the capability to measure orbital parameters, confirm orbital decays, identify additional planets, and imply the existence of exomoons through transit timings and light-curve structures. As a preparation to identify more exomoons from observational data, we explore the structures of transit light curves of planetary systems with exomoons. After building a bank of simulated light curves, the key exomoon signals would be found and the success rate of exomoon search could be increased.