https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134702004
Detecting circumbinary planets: A new quasi-periodic search algorithm
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
a e-mail: d.j.armstrong@warwick.ac.uk
We present a search method based around the grouping of data residuals, suitable for the detection of many quasi-periodic signals. Combined with an efficient and easily implemented method to predict the maximum transit timing variations of a transiting circumbinary exoplanet, we form a fast search algorithm for such planets. We here target the Kepler dataset in particular, where all the transiting examples of circumbinary planets have been found to date. The method is presented and demonstrated on two known systems in the Kepler data.
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