Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-02-02
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1331, pp. 95-101 (2011)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Part of PlanetsbeyondMS/2010 proceedings http://arxiv.org/html/1011.6606
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3571005
Most of the known transiting extrasolar planets orbit slowly rotating F, G or K stars. In here we report on the detection of a transiting planet orbiting the bright, rapidly rotating A5 star HD15082 (WASP-33b, V=8.3, m sin i = 86 km s-1), recently made by SuperWASP. Time resolved spectroscopic observations taken during transit show a hump caused by the planet crossing the line profile. From the analysis of the spectra, we derive the radius of the planet and find that it is orbiting retrograde in respect to the spin of the star. Because of its small distance from an A5 star (the orbital period of only 1.22 days), the equilibrium temperature of the planet is estimated to be 2700 K. The planet thus is one of the hottest planets known, which makes it relatively easy to detect it in the IR. We thus tried to detect it using the TNG but did not succeed.
Collier Cameron Andrew
Guenther Eike W.
Rebolo Rafael
Rodler Florian
Smalley Barry
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