Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. I. Light curve analyses

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I present an homogeneous analysis of the transit light curves of 14 well-observed transiting extrasolar planets.

• The light curves are modelled using JKTEBOP, random errors are measured using Monte Carlo simulations, and the effects of correlated noise are included using a residual-permutation algorithm.
• The importance of stellar limb darkening (LD) on the light curve solutions and parameter uncertainties is investigated using five different LD laws.
• The linear LD law cannot adequately fit the HST photometry of HD 209458, but the other four laws give very similar results to each other.