Discovery of WASP-65b and WASP-75b: Two hot Jupiters without highly inflated radii

  • Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew
  • , F. Faedi
  • , D. Pollacco
  • , D. J. A. Brown
  • , A. P. Doyle
  • , A. Collier Cameron
  • , M. Gillon
  • , M. Lendl
  • , B. Smalley
  • , A. H. M. J. Triaud
  • , R. G. West
  • , P. J. Wheatley
  • , R. Busuttil
  • , C. Liebig
  • , D. R. Anderson
  • , D. J. Armstrong
  • , S. C. C. Barros
  • , J. Bento
  • , J. Bochinski
  • , V. Burwitz
  • L. Delrez, B. Enoch, A. Fumel, C. A. Haswell, G. Hébrard, C. Hellier, S. Holmes, E. Jehin, U. Kolb, P. F. L. Maxted, J. McCormac, G. R. M. Miller, A. J. Norton, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, J. Rodríguez, D. Ségransan, I. Skillen, K. G. Stassun, S. Udry, C. Watson

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Abstract

We report the discovery of two transiting hot Jupiters, WASP-65b (Mpl = 1.55 ± 0.16 MJ; Rpl = 1.11 ± 0.06 RJ), and WASP-75b (Mpl = 1.07 ± 0.05 MJ; Rpl = 1.27 ± 0.05 RJ). They orbit their host star every ∼2.311, and ∼2.484 days, respectively. The planet host WASP-65 is a G6 star (Teff = 5600 K, [Fe/H] = −0.07 ± 0.07, age 8 Gyr); WASP-75 is an F9 star (Teff = 6100 K, [Fe/H] = 0.07 ± 0.09, age ∼ 3 Gyr). WASP-65b is one of the densest known exoplanets in the mass range 0.1 and 2.0 MJ (ρpl = 1.13 ± 0.08 ρJ), a mass range where a large fraction of planets are found to be inflated with respect to theoretical planet models. WASP-65b is one of only a handful of planets with masses of ∼1.5 MJ, a mass regime surprisingly underrepresented among the currently known hot Jupiters. The radius of WASP-75b is slightly inflated (10%) as compared to theoretical planet models with no core, and has a density similar to that of Saturn (ρpl = 0.52 ± 0.06 ρJ). Key words. planetary systems – stars: individual:
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA36
Number of pages11
JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
Volume559
Early online date01 Nov 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013

Keywords

  • astro-ph.EP
  • astro-ph.SR

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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