Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades,
astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and
characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of
an "exomoon" is notably absent. In this thesis, David Kipping shows
how transiting planets may be used to infer the presence of
exomoons through deviations in the time and duration of the
planetary eclipses. A detailed account of the transit model,
potential distortions, and timing techniques is covered before the
analytic forms for the timing variations are derived. It is shown
that habitable-zone exomoons above 0.2 Earth-masses are detectable
with the Kepler space telescope using these new timing techniques.
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