 Analytic Light Curves for Planetary Transit Searches by Kaisey Mandel and Eric Agol

By Kaisey Mandel, Eric Agol.

Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 580, L171–L175.

Online text: faculty.washington.edu/agol/MandelAgol2002.pdf

Cited passages: §1, p. L171: the linear law is insufficient for the cited high-quality transit observations; §4 defines a quadratic law; §2, p. L171, geometry; §5, p. L174, small-planet approximation restricted to the interior $z<1-p$.