Independent discovery and refined parameters of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14b

Details Independent discovery and refined parameters of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14b Independent discovery and refined parameters of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14b

2010-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3470v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

To be submitted to AJ. 17 pages, 5 figures

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We present SuperWASP observations of HAT-P-14b, a hot Jupiter discovered by Torres et al. The planet was found independently by the SuperWASP team and named WASP-27b after follow-up observations had secured the discovery, but prior to the publication by Torres et al. Our analysis of HAT-P-14/WASP-27 is in good agreement with the values found by Torres et al. and we refine the parameters by combining our datasets. We also provide additional evidence against astronomical false positives. Due to the brightness of the host star, V = 10, HAT-P-14 is an attractive candidate for further characterisation observations. The planet has a high impact parameter, b = 0.907 +/- 0.004, and the primary transit is close to grazing. This could readily reveal small deviations in the orbital parameters indicating the presence of a third body in the system, which may be causing the small but significant orbital eccentricity, e = 0.095 +/- 0.011. The system geometry suggests that the planet narrowly fails to undergo a secondary eclipse. However, even a non-detection would tightly constrain the system parameters.

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