WASP-10b: a 3M_J, gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star

Details WASP-10b: a 3M_J, gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star WASP-10b: a 3M_J, gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star

2008-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1482v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 Pages, 3 Figures, 3 Tables, accepted in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14164.x

We report the discovery of WASP-10b, a new transiting extrasolar planet (ESP) discovered by the WASP Consortium and confirmed using NOT FIES and SOPHIE radial velocity data. A 3.09 day period, 29 mmag transit depth, and 2.36 hour duration are derived for WASP-10b using WASP and high precision photometric observations. Simultaneous fitting to the photometric and radial velocity data using a Markov-chain Monte Carlo procedure leads to a planet radius of 1.28R_J, a mass of 2.96M_J and eccentricity of ~0.06. WASP-10b is one of the more massive transiting ESPs, and we compare its characteristics to the current sample of transiting ESP, where there is currently little information for masses greater than ~2M_J and non-zero eccentricities. WASP-10's host star, GSC 2752-00114 (USNO-B1.0 1214-0586164) is among the fainter stars in the WASP sample, with V=12.7 and a spectral type of K5. This result shows promise for future late-type dwarf star surveys.

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