# How Low Can You Go? The Photoeccentric Effect for Planets of Various Sizes

@article{Price2014HowLC,
title={How Low Can You Go? The Photoeccentric Effect for Planets of Various Sizes},
author={Ellen M. Price and Leslie J. A. Rogers and John Asher Johnson and Rebekah I. Dawson},
journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
year={2014}
}
It is well-known that the light curve of a transiting planet contains information about the planet's orbital period and size relative to the host star. More recently, it has been demonstrated that a tight constraint on an individual planet's eccentricity can sometimes be derived from the light curve via the "photoeccentric effect," the effect of a planet's eccentricity on the shape and duration of its light curve. This has only been studied for large planets and high signal-to-noise scenarios… Expand

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