<p>I found this article <a href="http://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2011/01/epjconf_ohp2010_03005.pdf">http://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2011/01/epjconf_ohp2010_03005.pdf</a> from 2011 announcing that two dozen secondary eclipses of "hot Jupters" have been seen in Kepler data. I even think I have seen a light curve showing phase changes of a transiting planet. This makes me think that there should be evidence in the Kepler data for non-transiting planets since the amplitude of the light curve due to planetary phase changes shouldn't be much different from that of a secondary eclipse as long as there is a fairly high inclination (say over 60 degrees).</p>

<p>Is anybody aware of such an examination of the data?</p>

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2016-04-01T16:36:34.253Z
Good question. Without a prori knowing the orbital period and phase it would be extremely difficult because there are all sorts of day to day variations in the measured brightness, both astrophysical and due to problems with Kepler.
ProfRob
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2016-04-01T20:35:31.777Z
I know of no one who has done such an examination, but it is hypothetically possible to do. As Jeffries suggests though, it will be difficult due to sources of noise. You'd need a large number of orbits to get any statistically significant signal. It wouldn't hurt to also have a relatively quiescent star.
zephyr
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2016-04-02T23:59:56.903Z
I found an article http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2010/10/aa14303-10.pdf that describes how CoRoT may have done this, but it was a known planet with a known period. If I am interpreting correctly, they had to superimpose many 3 day signals to come up with a good light curve.
Jack R. Woods
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Has the Kepler data been examined for light curves due to phase changes of non-transitting hot Jupiters and other?
Jack R. Woods
# Has the Kepler data been examined for light curves due to phase changes of non-transitting hot Jupiters and other?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-04-01)

I found this article <http://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2011/01/epjconf_ohp2010_03005.pdf> from 2011 announcing that two dozen secondary eclipses of "hot Jupters" have been seen in Kepler data. I even think I have seen a light curve showing phase changes of a transiting planet. This makes me think that there should be evidence in the Kepler data for non-transiting planets since the amplitude of the light curve due to planetary phase changes shouldn't be much different from that of a secondary eclipse as long as there is a fairly high inclination (say over 60 degrees).

Is anybody aware of such an examination of the data?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Good question. Without a prori knowing the orbital period and phase it would be extremely difficult because there are all sorts of day to day variations in the measured brightness, both astrophysical and due to problems with Kepler.  
> **username_2**: I know of no one who has done such an examination, but it is hypothetically possible to do. As Jeffries suggests though, it will be difficult due to sources of noise. You'd need a large number of orbits to get any statistically significant signal. It wouldn't hurt to also have a relatively quiescent star.  
> **username_0**: I found an article http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2010/10/aa14303-10.pdf that describes how CoRoT may have done this, but it was a known planet with a known period. If I am interpreting correctly, they had to superimpose many 3 day signals to come up with a good light curve.  

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