TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field
Abstract
We announce the discovery of the second transiting hot Jupiter discovered by the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey. The planet, which we dub TrES-2, orbits the nearby star GSC 03549-02811 every 2.47063 days. From high-resolution spectra, we determine that the star has T_eff = 5960 +/- 100 K and log(g) = 4.4 +/- 0.2, implying a spectral type of G0V and a mass of 1.08 +0.11/-0.05 M_sun. High-precision radial-velocity measurements confirm a sinusoidal variation with the period and phase predicted by the photometry, and rule out the presence of line-bisector variations that would indicate that the spectroscopic orbit is spurious. We estimate a planetary mass of 1.28 +0.09/-0.04 M_Jup. We model B, r, R, and I photometric timeseries of the 1.4%-deep transits and find a planetary radius of 1.24 +0.09/-0.06 R_Jup. This planet lies within the field of view of the NASA Kepler mission, ensuring that hundreds of upcoming transits will be monitored with exquisite precision and permitting a host of unprecedented investigations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609335,
title = {TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field},
author = {Francis T. O'Donovan and David Charbonneau and Georgi Mandushev and Edward W. Dunham and David W. Latham and Guillermo Torres and Alessandro Sozzetti and Timothy M. Brown and John T. Trauger and Juan A. Belmonte and Markus Rabus and Jose M. Almenara and Roi Alonso and Hans J. Deeg and Gilbert A. Esquerdo and Emilio E. Falco and Lynne A. Hillenbrand and Anna Roussanova and Robert P. Stefanik and Joshua N. Winn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609335},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in ApJL. 15 pages, 2 figures