Detecting Planetary Oblateness in the Era of JWST: A Case Study of Kepler-167e

Planets may be rotationally flattened, and their oblateness thus provides useful information on their formation and evolution. Here, we develop a new algorithm that can compute the transit light curve due to an oblate planet very efficiently and use it to study the detectability of planet oblateness...

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Published in:	The Astronomical Journal
Main Authors:	Quanyi Liu, Wei Zhu, Yifan Zhou, Zhecheng Hu, Zitao Lin, Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Sharon X. Wang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Exoplanets Transit photometry Oblateness
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9b8c