Exomoons to Galactic Structure : High Precision Studies with the Microlensing and Transit Methods.

Intro; Supervisor's Foreword; Preface; Parts of this thesis have been published in the following articles:; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Basic Theory Exoplanet Detection; 2.1 Exoplanet Detection Methods; 2.1.1 Radial Velocity Method; 2.1.2 Transit Method; 2.1.3 Gravitational Microlensing Method; 2.1.4 Pulsar Timing Method; 2.1.5 Direct Imaging Method; 2.1.6 Astrometry Method; 2.2 Exoplanet Detection Programs; 2.2.1 Ground-Based Transit Surveys; 2.2.2 Space-Based Transit Missions

2.2.3 Ground-Based Microlensing Surveys2.2.4 Space-Based Microlensing Missions; References; 3 Transit Timing Variation and Transmission Spectroscopy Analyses of the Hot Neptune GJ3470b; 3.1 Characterizing Transiting Exoplanet; 3.1.1 Probability of Transits; 3.1.2 Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves; 3.1.3 Determining System Parameters; 3.1.4 Limb-Darkening; 3.1.5 Transit Timing Variations; 3.1.6 Transmission Spectroscopy; 3.2 Photometry Pipeline; 3.3 Hot-Neptune GJ3470b; 3.4 Observations and Data Analysis; 3.4.1 Photometric Observations; 3.4.2 Light Curve Analysis

3.4.3 Stellar and Planetary Characterizations3.5 Transit Timing Variations Analysis of GJ3470b; 3.5.1 O-C Diagram; 3.5.2 Upper Mass Limit of the Second Planet; 3.6 Transmission Spectroscopy Analysis of GJ3470b; 3.6.1 Rayleigh Scattering; 3.6.2 Atmospheric Composition; 3.7 Conclusion; References; 4 Detectability of Habitable Exomoons; 4.1 Exomoon Background and Detection Methods; 4.2 Generating Light Curves of an Exoplanet with Exomoon; 4.2.1 Planet-Moon Orbit; 4.2.2 Planetary Transit Light Curve; 4.2.3 Planet-Moon Transit Light Curve

4.3 Transit Timing Variations and Transit Duration Variations4.3.1 Transit Timing Variations; 4.3.2 Transit Duration Variation; 4.4 Habitable Exomoons; 4.5 Measuring Exomoon Detectability; 4.5.1 Kepler Transiting Light Curve Generation; 4.5.2 Measuring TTV-TDV Signals; 4.5.3 TTV-TDV Correlation Testing; 4.6 Detectability of Habitable Exomoons; 4.6.1 Modelling Habitable Exomoons; 4.6.2 Detectability of Habitable Exomoons; 4.7 Exomoon Detectability with Interstellar Noise; 4.8 Conclusion; References; 5 Microlensing Maps of the Galaxy; 5.1 Gravitational Microlensing

5.1.1 Gravitational Microlensing Background5.1.2 Single Lens Microlensing; 5.2 Microlensing Properties; 5.2.1 Optical Depth; 5.2.2 Average Einstein Radius Crossing Time; 5.2.3 Microlensing Event Rate; 5.3 Microlensing Towards the Galactic Bulge; 5.4 The Besaçon Galactic Model; 5.4.1 Thin Disk; 5.4.2 Thick Disk; 5.4.3 Bulge/Bar; 5.4.4 Stellar Halo; 5.5 Manchester-Besançon Microlensing Simulator; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Besançon Model Simulations of MOA-II; 6.1 MOA-II Microlensing Survey; 6.2 Simulating the Galactic Bulge of the MOA-II Field; 6.2.1 Simulating the MOA-II Fields