Discovery and characterization of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting a solar-type star

Details Discovery and characterization of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting a solar-type star Discovery and characterization of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting a solar-type star

2009-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/0901.4705v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

submitted to A&A, 10 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

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We report the discovery of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting every 3.3610060 +0.0000022-0.0000035 days a mildly metal-poor solar-type star of magnitude V=11.9. A combined analysis of the WASP photometry, high-precision followup transit photometry and radial velocities yield a planetary mass M_p = 0.503 +0.019-0.038 M_jup and radius R_p = 1.224 +0.051-0.052 R_jup, resulting in a density rho_p = 0.27 +-0.05 rho_jup. The mass and radius for the host star are M_s = 0.88 +0.05-0.08 M_sun and R_s = 0.870 +0.025-0.036 R_sun. The non-zero orbital eccentricity e = 0.054 +0.018-0.015 that we measure suggests that the planet underwent a massive tidal heating ~1 Gyr ago that could have contributed to its inflated radius. High-precision radial velocities obtained during a transit allow us to measure a sky-projected angle between the stellar spin and orbital axis Beta = 11 +14-18 deg. In addition to similar published measurements, this result favors a dominant migration mechanism based on tidal interactions with a protoplanetary disk.

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