We report the discovery of three new transiting hot Jupiters by WASP-South together with the TRAPPIST photometer and the Euler/CORALIE spectrograph. WASP-74b orbits a star of V = 9.7, making it one of the brighter systems accessible to Southern telescopes. It is a 0.95 M_Jup planet with a moderately bloated radius of 1.5 R_Jup in a 2-d orbit around a slightly evolved F9 star. WASP-83b is a Saturn-mass planet at 0.3 M_Jup with a radius of 1.0 R_Jup. It is in a 5-d orbit around a fainter (V = 12.9) G8 star. WASP-89b is a 6 M_Jup planet in a 3-d orbit with an eccentricity of e = 0.2. It is thus similar to massive, eccentric planets such as XO-3b and HAT-P-2b, except that those planets orbit F stars whereas WASP-89 is a K star. The V = 13.1 host star is magnetically active, showing a rotation period of 20.2 d, while star spots are visible in the transits. There are indications that the planet's orbit is aligned with the stellar spin. WASP-89 is a good target for an extensive study of transits of star spots.
@article{arxiv.1410.6358,
title = {Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b},
author = {Coel Hellier and D. R. Anderson and A. Collier Cameron and L. Delrez and M. Gillon and E. Jehin and M. Lendl and P. F. L. Maxted and F. Pepe and D. Pollacco and D. Queloz and D. Segransan and B. Smalley and A. M. S. Smith and J. Southworth and A. H. M. J. Triaud and O. D. Turner and S. Udry and R. G. West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6358},
year = {2014}
}