Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 47, 2013
Hot Planets and Cool Stars
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Article Number | 01003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | WFCAM Transit Survey | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134701003 | |
Published online | 25 April 2013 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134701003
WTS1 b: The first planet detected in the WFCAM Transit Survey
An inflated hot-Jupiter in a 3.35 day orbit around a late F-star*
1 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85741 Garching, Germany
2 Universitatssternwarte Scheinerstrasse 1, 81679 Munchen, Germany
3 Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
4 Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
5 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
6 Departamento de Astrofísica, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA), PO Box 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Canada, Spain
a e-mail: cappetta@mpe.mpg.de
We report the discovery of WTS1 b, the first extrasolar planet found by the WFCAM Transit Survey. For one of the most promising transiting candidates, high-resolution spectra taken at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) allowed us to estimate the spectroscopic parameters of the host star, a late-F main sequence dwarf (V = 16.13), and to measure its radial velocity variations. The combined analysis of the light curves and spectroscopic data resulted in an orbital period of the companion of 3.35 days, a planetary mass of 4.01 ± 0.35 MJ, and a planetary radius of 1.49 +0.16-0.18 RJ. WTS1 b has one of the largest radius anomalies among the known hot Jupiters in the mass range 3–5 MJ.
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