The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111

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2004-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408499v1

Astron.Astrophys. 426 (2004) L15-18

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200400066

We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a radius of 1.0 +0.13-0.06 R_J. Three transiting exoplanets have already been found among OGLE candidates, all with periods near 1.5 days. The planet presented here, with P=4.0 days, is the first exoplanet detected by transits with the characteristics of a "normal" hot Jupiter, as found in abundance by radial velocity surveys The radius of OGLE-TR-111b and the scarcity of hot Jupiters detected among OGLE transit candidates tend to indicate that the case of HD209458b, with a radius of 1.4 R_J, is exceptional, with most hot Jupiters being smaller.

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