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    Homogeneous transit timing analyses of 10 exoplanet systems
    (Oxford University Press, 2022-03-07) Baştürk, Ö.; Esmer, E. M.; Yalçınkaya, S.; Torun, Ş.; Mancini, L.; Helweh, Fadel El; Karamanlı, Ertuğrul; Southworth, J.; Aliş, S.; Wünsche, A.; Tezcan, F.; Aladağ, Y.; Aksaker, N.; Tunç, Ege; Davoudi, F.; Fişek, S.; Bretton, M.; Evans, D. F.; Yeşilyaprak, C.; Yılmaz, M.; Tezcan, C. T.; Yelkenci, K.
    We study the transit timings of 10 exoplanets in order to investigate potential transit timing variations in them. We model their available ground-based light curves, some presented here and others taken from the literature, and homogeneously measure the mid-transit times. We statistically compare our results with published values and find that the measurement errors agree. However, in terms of recovering the possible frequencies, homogeneous sets can be found to be more useful, of which no statistically relevant example has been found for the planets in our study. We corrected the ephemeris information of all 10 planets we studied and provide these most precise light elements as references for future transit observations with space-borne and ground-based instruments. We found no evidence for secular or periodic changes in the orbital periods of the planets in our sample, including the ultra-short period WASP-103 b, whose orbit is expected to decay on an observable time-scale. Therefore, we derive the lower limits for the reduced tidal quality factors (Q) for the host stars based on best-fitting quadratic functions to their timing data. We also present a global model of all available data for WASP-74 b, which has a Gaia parallax-based distance value ∼25 per cent larger than the published value.
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    Looking for timing variations in the transits of 16 exoplanets
    (Oxford University Press, 2024-04-05) Yalcinkaya, S.; Esmer, E. M.; Basturk, O.; Muhaymin, A.; Kutluay, A. C.; Silistre, D. I.; Akar, F.; Southworth, J.; Mancini, L.; Davoudi, F.; Karamanli, E.; Tezcan, F.; Demir, E.; Yilmaz, D.; Guleroglu, E.; Tekin, M.; Taskin, I.; Aladag, Y.; Sertkan, E.; Kurt, U. Y.; Fisek, S.; Kaptan, S.; Alis, S.; Aksaker, N.; Yelkenci, F. K.; Tezcan, C. T.; Kaya, A.; Oglakkaya, D.; Aydin, Z. S.; Yesilyaprak, C.
    We update the ephemerides of 16 transiting exoplanets using our ground-based observations, new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite data, and previously published observations including those of amateur astronomers. All these light curves were modelled by making use of a set of quantitative criteria with the exofast code to obtain mid-transit times. We searched for statistically significant secular and/or periodic trends in the mid-transit times. We found that the timing data are well modelled by a linear ephemeris for all systems except for XO-2 b, for which we detect an orbital decay with the rate of -12.95 +/- 1.85 ms yr(-1) that can be confirmed with future observations. We also detect a hint of potential periodic variations in the transit timing variation data of HAT-P-13 b, which also requires confirmation with further precise observations.