Orbital eccentricity of WASP-12 and WASP-14 from new radial-velocity monitoring with SOPHIE

Details Orbital eccentricity of WASP-12 and WASP-14 from new radial-velocity monitoring with SOPHIE Orbital eccentricity of WASP-12 and WASP-14 from new radial-velocity monitoring with SOPHIE

2010-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/1004.1809v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS.

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As part of the long-term radial velocity monitoring of known transiting planets -- designed to measure orbital eccentricities, spin-orbit alignments and further planetary companions -- we have acquired radial velocity data for the two transiting systems WASP-12 and WASP-14, each harbouring gas giants on close orbits (orbital period of 1.09 and 2.24 days respectively). In both cases, the initial orbital solution suggested a significant orbital eccentricity, 0.049+-0.015 for WASP-12 and 0.091+-0.003 for WASP-14. Since then, measurements of the secondary eclipse of WASP-12 in the infrared have indicated that one projection of the eccentricity (e cos w) was very close to zero, casting doubt on the eccentricity from the initial radial velocity orbit. Our measurements confirm that the initial eccentricity detection could be spurious, and show that the radial velocity data is compatible with a circular orbit. A MCMC analysis taking into account the presence of correlated systematic noise in both the radial velocity and photometric data gives e=0.017 (+0.015-0.011). By contrast, we confirm the orbital eccentricity of WASP-14, and refine its value to e=0.088+-0.003. WASP-14 is thus the closest presently known planet with a confirmed eccentric orbit.

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