The Effects of Tidal Distortion on Transit Lightcurves

Brian Jackson (NASA GSFC/Carnegie DTM) & Drake Deming (UMD)

Loeb & Gaudi (2003)

Welsh et al. (2010)

Ellipsoidal Variation

1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4 1

2

Transit of undistorted star

undistorted

linear fit

quad fit

(dist

orte

d)-(u

ndist

orte

d)

Acknowledgments

Extreme Solar Systems OrganizersCarnegie DTM