Light curves of HAT-P-3b and HAT-P-14b

The technique allows a search for variations in either the transit duration or the center induced by the perturbation of a third body, e.g. a second planet or an exomoon. By applying this method, the TASTE (The Asiago Search for Transit Timing variations of Exoplanets) project will collect high- precision, short-cadence light curves for a selected sample of transits by using imaging differential photometry at the Asiago 1.82m telescope.

The first light curves show that our project can achieve a competitive timing accuracy, as well as a significant improvement of the orbital parameters. We derived refined ephemerides for HAT-P-3b and HAT-P-14b with a timing accuracy of 11 and 25s, respectively.