HATS9-b and HATS10-b: Two Compact Hot Jupiters in Field 7 of the K2 Mission
Abstract
We report the discovery of two transiting extrasolar planets by the HATSouth survey. HATS-9b orbits an old (10.8 ± 1.5 Gyr) V = 13.3 G dwarf star with a period P≈ 1.9153 days. The host star has a mass of 1.03 {M}⊙ , radius of 1.503 {R}⊙ , and effective temperature 5366 ± 70 K. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.837 {M}{{J}} and radius of 1.065 {R}{{J}}, yielding a mean density of 0.85 {{g}} {{cm}}-3. HATS-10b orbits a V = 13.1 G dwarf star with a period P≈ 3.3128 days. The host star has a mass of 1.1 {M}⊙ , radius of 1.11 {R}⊙ , and effective temperature 5880 ± 120 K. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.53 {M}{{J}} and radius of 0.97 {R}{{J}}, yielding a mean density of 0.7 {{g}} {{cm}}-3. Both planets are compact in comparison with planets receiving similar irradiation from their host stars and lie in the nominal coordinates of Field 7 of K2, but only HATS-9b falls on working silicon. Future characterization of HATS-9b with the exquisite photometric precision of the Kepler telescope may provide measurements of its reflected light signature.
The HATSouth network is operated by a collaboration consisting of Princeton University (PU), the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Australian National University (ANU), and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). The station at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) of the Carnegie Institute is operated by PU in conjunction with PUC, the station at the High Energy Spectroscopic Survey (H.E.S.S.) site is operated in conjunction with MPIA, and the station at Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) is operated jointly with ANU. Based in part on data collected at Subaru Telescope, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Based in part on observations made with the MPG 2.2 m Telescope at the ESO Observatory in La Silla. This paper uses observations obtained with facilities of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope. Based on observations obtained with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m telescope, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium.- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0004-6256/150/1/33
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1503.00062
- Bibcode:
- 2015AJ....150...33B
- Keywords:
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- planetary systems;
- stars: individual: HATS-9;
- GSC 6305-02502;
- HATS-10;
- GSC 6311-00085;
- techniques: photometric;
- techniques: spectroscopic;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in AJ