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Transit duration and timing variations from binary planets
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Systems of two gravitationally bound exoplanets orbiting a common barycentre outside their physical radii (binary planets') may result from tidal capture during planet-planet scattering. These objects are expected to form in tight orbits of just a few times their summed radii due to dynamical tides. As a result of their close proximity, their transits o v erlap heavily, leading to the deceptive illusion of a single planet of larger ef fecti ve size, an effect compounded in the presence of noisy data and/or long integration times. We show that these illusory single-component transits, dubbed chimera transits', exhibit large-amplitude transit duration variation (TDV) effects of the order of hours, as well as smaller transit timing variations (TTVs). We compute an analytical approximation for the transit duration upper bound, assuming binary planets with low impact parameter and orbits coplanar with the stellarcentric orbit. We verify the accuracy of our expressions against dynamical simulations of binary Jupiters using the LUNA algorithm, and provide a PYTHON code for numerical calculations of the TDV signal in binary planet systems ( github.com/joheenc/binary- planet-transits ). Additionally, chimera transits from binary planets exhibit TTVs of detectable amplitude and high frequency, falling within the recently identified exomoon corridor. Due to their anomalous shapes, depths, and durations, such objects may be flagged as false positives, but could be clearly surveyed for in existing archives.
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methods:analytical
methods:numerical
planets and satellites:detection
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