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Discovery of Six Optical Phase Curves with K2
Prajwal Niraula, Seth Redfield, Julien de Wit, Fei Dai, Ismael Mireles, Dilovan Serindag, Avi Shporer
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We have systematically searched for the phase curves among the planets discovered by \textit{K2}. Using the reported planetary parameters, we screen out the best potential candidates, and examine their light curves in detail. For our work, we consider light curves from two different detrending pipelines - \texttt{EVEREST} and \texttt{K2SFF}. In order to remove stellar variability and systematics, we test three different filtering techniques: spline, phasma (median-filtering) and Butterworth (harmonics filtering), and use Butterworth filtered light curves for the subsequent analysis. We have identified 6 previously unreported phase curves among the planets observed with \textit{K2}: K2-31b, HATS-9b, HATS-11b, K2-107b, K2-131b, and K2-106b. The first four of these are hot Jupiters for which we find the photometric masses consistent with their RV-based masses within 2σ, 1σ, 1σ, and 3σ respectively with comparatively low geometric albedos, while the last two are ultra-short period super-Earths with phase curves dominated by reflective and thermal components. We also detect a secondary eclipse in HATS-11b at 62±12 ppm. We thus deem it to be possible to validate the planetary nature of selected \textit{K2}, and suggest similar vetting could be used for the ongoing \textit{TESS} mission.
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