Probing a rn modification of the Newtonian potential with exoplanets

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Published 19 June 2020 © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Matteo Luca Ruggiero and Lorenzo Iorio JCAP06(2020)042 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/042

1475-7516/2020/06/042

Abstract

The growing availability of increasingly accurate data on transiting exoplanets suggests the possibility of using these systems as possible testbeds for modified models of gravity. In particular, we suggest that the post-Keplerian (pK) dynamical effects from the perturbations of the Newtonian potential falling off as the square or the cube of the distance from the mass of the host star break the degeneracy of the anomalistic, draconitic and sidereal periods. The latter are characteristic temporal intervals in the motion of a binary system, and all coincide in the purely Keplerian case. We work out their analytical expressions in presence of the aforementioned perturbations to yield preliminary insights on the potential of the method proposed for constraining the modified models of gravity considered. A comparison with other results existing in the literature is made.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/042