We report the discovery of a new transiting planet from the WASP survey. WASP-135b is a hot Jupiter with a radius of 1.30 pm 0.09 Rjup, a mass of 1.90 pm 0.08 Mjup and an orbital period of 1.401 days. Its host is a Sun-like star, with a G5 spectral type and a mass and radius of 0.98 pm 0.06 Msun and 0.96 pm 0.05 Rsun respectively. The proximity of the planet to its host means that WASP-135b receives high levels of insolation, which may be the cause of its inflated radius. Additionally, we find weak evidence of a transfer of angular momentum from the planet to its star.
@article{arxiv.1511.05954,
title = {WASP-135b: a highly irradiated, inflated hot Jupiter orbiting a G5V star},
author = {Jessica J. Spake and David J. A. Brown and Amanda P. Doyle and Guillaume Hébrard and James McCormac and David J. Armstrong and Don Pollacco and Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew and David R. Anderson and Susana C. C. Barros and François Bouchy and Panayotis Boumis and Giovanni Bruno and Andrew Collier Cameron and Bastien Courcol and Guy R. Davies and Francesca Faedi and Coel Hellier and James Kirk and Kristine W. F. Lam and Alexios Liakos and Tom Louden and Pierre F. L. Maxted and Hugh P. Osborn and Enric Palle and Jorge Prieto Arranz and Stéphane Udry and Simon R. Walker and Richard G. West and Peter J. Wheatley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05954},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific