We report the discovery of MASCARA-3b, a hot Jupiter orbiting its bright (V = 8.33) late F-type host every 5.55149±0.00001 days in an almost circular orbit (e=0.050−0.017+0.020). This is the fourth exoplanet discovered with the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), and the first of these that orbits a late-type star. Follow-up spectroscopic measurements were obtained in and out of transit with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope. Combining the MASCARA photometry and SONG radial velocities reveals a radius and mass of 1.36±0.05RJup and 4.2±0.2MJup. In addition, SONG spectroscopic transit observations were obtained on two separate nights. From analyzing the mean out-of-transit broadening function, we obtain vsini⋆=20.4±0.4 km s−1. In addition, investigating the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, as observed in the distortion of the stellar lines directly and through velocity anomalies, we find the projected obliquity to be λ=1.2−7.4+8.2 deg, which is consistent with alignment.
@article{arxiv.1906.05254,
title = {MASCARA-3b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright F7 star in an aligned orbit},
author = {M. Hjorth and S. Albrecht and G. J. J. Talens and F. Grundahl and A. B. Justesen and G. P. P. L. Otten and V. Antoci and P. Dorval and E. Foxell and M. Fredslund Andersen and F. Murgas and E. Palle and R. Stuik and I. A. G. Snellen and V. Van Eylen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05254},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; accepted in A&A. Updated for the accepted and proof-readed version