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Account for light travel time effects #326

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semaphoreP opened this issue Sep 13, 2022 · 1 comment
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Account for light travel time effects #326

semaphoreP opened this issue Sep 13, 2022 · 1 comment
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Account for the fact that when we receive photons from the planet and star, they were emitted at different times (and thus at different positions). This effect is biggest for edge-on orbits, systems closer to us, and for companions at wide separations. Here is how much this effect is for an edge-on circular orbit at maximum z-separation situated at 10 pc. It matters at GRAVITY precision starting ~30-100 au.

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Account for the fact the planet's light is emitted at a slightly different time than the star. This would involve needing to compute the planet's position at a slightly different time than the time received. This is negligible in almost all cases, so it should be optional.

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We could also just inflate the errorbars to hide this effect.

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H/t to @sefffal for bringing it up.

@semaphoreP semaphoreP added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 13, 2022
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semaphoreP commented Dec 14, 2022

Would be interesting to check if integration time matters also. Also BJD/HJD differences?

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