High-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of OGLE planetary transit candidates in the Galactic bulge: two possible Jupiter-mass planets and two blends

Details High-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of OGLE planetary transit candidates in the Galactic bulge: two possible Jupiter-mass planets and two blends High-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of OGLE planetary transit candidates in the Galactic bulge: two possible Jupiter-mass planets and two blends

2003-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306542v1

Astrophys.J.597:1076-1091,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1086/378561

We report the results of our campaign to follow-up spectroscopically several candidate extrasolar transiting planets from the OGLE-III survey in the direction of the Galactic center, announced in 2001 (Udalski et al 2002a,b). All of these objects present shallow and periodic dips in brightness that may be due to planetary companions. Our high-resolution Keck I/HIRES observations have revealed two interesting cases (OGLE-TR-10 with a period of 3.1 days, and OGLE-TR-58 with a period of 4.3 days) that show no radial velocity variations at the level of 100--200 m/s. If orbited by companions, their masses would be similar to Jupiter. With the information in hand (including the light curves) we are not able to rule out that these candidates are instead the result of contamination from an eclipsing binary in the same line of sight (a "blend"). We discuss also the case of OGLE-TR-56 that was recently reported by Konacki et al (2003) to have a Jupiter-size companion, based on an earlier analysis of our data, and we present supporting information. Two other candidates, OGLE-TR-3 and OGLE-TR-33, show clear evidence that they are blends.

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