Orbital Parameters and Planetary Radius of 55 Cancri e from TESS Data

ORAL

Abstract

55 Cancri e is an exoplanet approximately 41 LY from Earth with a notably short orbital period of 0.737 days. These characteristics combined with visible transits across its star make it an excellent target to study. We analyzed over 100 transits observed by NASA's TESS across 3 observation periods. We made measurements on several planetary and orbital parameters, as well as direct measurements of the stellar limb darkening coefficients of the host star, 55 Cancri A. We report a planetary radius of 1.64 +/- 0.1 Earth radii, an orbital radius of 0.019 +/- 0.009 AU, and an orbital inclination of 85 +/- 17 degrees. For the quadratic stellar limb darkening coefficients, we measured 0.58 +/- 0.48 and 0.64 +/- 0.55 for u_1 and u_2 respectively. We discuss plans for future work, with a focus on reducing error in the measurements.

*This research was funded by the Georgia Space Grant Consortium grant numbers 431591 and 431592, and by the Birla Carbon Scholars Program.

Presenters

  • Matt Bonvissuto

    • Kennesaw State University

Authors

  • Matt Bonvissuto

    • Kennesaw State University
  • David N Joffe

    • Kennesaw State University