lgrcia / nuance

Efficient detection of planets transiting quiet or active stars
https://nuance.readthedocs.io
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Definition of Transit Duration #27

Open TylerFair opened 1 month ago

TylerFair commented 1 month ago

I noticed that the definition of the transit duration in nuance follows the "time for a planet to move from its sky-projected centre overlapping with the stellar limb to exiting under the same condition" i.e. by doing epoch +- D/2 you obtain times corresponding to approximately the midpoint of ingress and egress (labelled T in diagram). I was wondering if there was a possibility to add a functionality for the transit duration under the traditional definition of first to fourth contact (labelled t_T). If this is too difficult or there are limitations thats fine! (Image attached) Untitled