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Gabriela Mallén-Ornelas Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Gabriela Mallén-Ornelas coauthored, with Sara Seager, an analytic study of what an exoplanet transit reveals about a planet and its host star. A light curve supplies more than a depth: durations and the orbital period also constrain the geometry.
Their result shows that the mean stellar mass density can be inferred from the light curve under stated assumptions, including a circular orbit and negligible limb darkening in the observing band. These conditions matter: a claim of a unique solution under a specified model does not make the same inference model-independent.[ref]
On the Unique Solution of Planet and Star Parameters from an Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curve by Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallén-Ornelas. Abstract: circular-orbit and limb-darkening assumptions, stellar density and photometric requirements
On the Unique Solution of Planet and Star Parameters from an Extrasolar Planet Transit Light Curve by Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallén-Ornelas Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
By Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallén-Ornelas. Section3.1,equations1–4 specify depth, contact durations and the circular-orbit scale. The2002 manuscript was published in The Astrophysical Journal585,1038–1055(2003).