A Smaller Radius for the Transiting Exoplanet WASP-10b

Details A Smaller Radius for the Transiting Exoplanet WASP-10b A Smaller Radius for the Transiting Exoplanet WASP-10b

2008-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/0812.0029v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, table 1 available upon request

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/L100

We present photometry of WASP-10 during the transit of its short-period Jovian planet. We employed the novel PSF-shaping capabilities the OPTIC camera mounted on the UH 2.2m telescope to achieve a photometric precision of 4.7e-4 per 1.3 min sample. With this new light curve, in conjunction with stellar evolutionary models, we improve on existing measurements of the planetary, stellar and orbital parameters. We find a stellar radius Rstar = 0.698 +/- 0.012 Rsun and a planetary radius Rp = 1.080 +/- 0.020 Rjup. The quoted errors do not include any possible systematic errors in the stellar evolutionary models. Our measurement improves the precision of the planet's radius by a factor of 4, and revises the previous estimate downward by 16% (2.5sigma, where sigma is the quadrature sum of the respective confidence limits). Our measured radius of WASP-10b is consistent with previously published theoretical radii for irradiated Jovian planets.

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