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We present broad-band photometry of eleven planetary transits of the hot Jupiter WASP-74b, using three medium-class telescopes and employing the telescope-defocussing technique. Most of the transits were monitored through I filters and one…

The transiting exoplanetary system WASP-174 was reported to be composed by a main-sequence F star (V=11.8 mag) and a giant planet, WASP-174b (orbital period 4.23 days). However only an upper limit was placed on the planet mass (<1.3 Mj),…

We present sixteen occultation and three transit light curves for the ultra-short period hot Jupiter WASP-103 b, in addition to five new radial velocity measurements. We combine these observations with archival data and perform a global…

We obtained long-slit optical spectroscopy of one transit of WASP-48b with the Optical System for Imaging and low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (OSIRIS) spectrograph at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 F. Murgas , E. Pallé , H. Parviainen , G. Chen , L. Nortmann , G. Nowak , A. Cabrera-Lavers , N. Iro

Two photometric follow-up transit (primary eclipse) observations on WASP-43 b and four observations on TrES-3 b are performed using the Xuyi Near-Earth Object Survey Telescope. After differential photometry and light curve analysis, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Zhao Sun , Jianghui Ji , Yao Dong

(Abridged) WASP-5b is a highly irradiated dense hot Jupiter orbiting a G4V star every 1.6 days. We observed two secondary eclipses of WASP-5b in the J, H and K bands simultaneously. Thermal emission of WASP-5b is detected in the J and K…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Guo Chen , Roy van Boekel , Nikku Madhusudhan , Hongchi Wang , Nikolay Nikolov , Ulf Seemann , Thomas Henning

We present new optical transmission spectra for two hot Jupiters: WASP-25b (M = 0.56~M$_J$; R = 1.23 R$_J$; P =~3.76 days) and WASP-124b (M = 0.58~M$_J$; R = 1.34 R$_J$; P = 3.37 days), with wavelength coverages of 4200 - 9100\AA\ and 4570…

Optical transmission spectroscopy provides crucial constraints on the reference pressure levels and scattering properties for hot Jupiter atmospheres. For certain planets, where alkali atoms are detected in the atmosphere, their line…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 G. Chen , N. Casasayas-Barris , E. Palle , L. Welbanks , N. Madhusudhan , R. Luque , F. Murgas

We present one of the most precise emission spectra of an exoplanet observed so far. We combine five secondary eclipses of the hot Jupiter WASP-18 b (Tday=2900K) that we secured between 1.1 and 1.7 micron with the WFC3 instrument aboard the…

The short period ($0.94$-day) transiting exoplanet WASP-19b is an exceptional target for transmission spectroscopy studies, due to its relatively large atmospheric scale-height ($\sim 500$ km) and equilibrium temperature ($\sim 2100$ K).…

Accurate and repeated photometric follow-up observations of planetary-transit events are important to precisely characterize the physical properties of exoplanets. A good knowledge of the main characteristics of the exoplanets is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 S. Ciceri , L. Mancini , J. Southworth , I. Bruni , N. Nikolov , G. D'Ago , T. Schroeder , V. Bozza , J. Tregloan-Reed , Th. Henning

We present photometry of WASP-10 during the transit of its short-period Jovian planet. We employed the novel PSF-shaping capabilities the OPTIC camera mounted on the UH 2.2m telescope to achieve a photometric precision of 4.7e-4 per 1.3 min…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John A. Johnson , Joshua N. Winn , Nicole E. Cabrera , Joshua A. Carter

The radii of giant planets, as measured from transit observations, may vary with wavelength due to Rayleigh scattering or variations in opacity. Such an effect is predicted to be large enough to detect using ground-based observations at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 John Southworth , L. Mancini , P. F. L. Maxted , I. Bruni , J. Tregloan-Reed , M. Barbieri , N. Ruocco , P. J. Wheatley

We probe the structure and composition of the atmospheres of 5 hot Jupiter exoplanets using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. We use the G141 grism (1.1-1.7 $\mu$m) to study TrES-2b, TrES-4b, and CoRoT-1b in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sukrit Ranjan , David Charbonneau , Jean-Michel Désert , Nikku Madhusudhan , Drake Deming , Ashlee Wilkins , Avi M. Mandell

We have used photometry from the WASP-South instrument to identify 5 stars showing planet-like transits in their light curves. The planetary nature of the companions to these stars has been confirmed using photometry from the EulerCam…

We present ground-based measurements of the transmission and emission spectra of the hot-Jupiter WASP-19b in nine spectroscopic channels from 1.25 to 2.35 microns. The measurements are based on the combined analysis of time-series…

Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which lead to the large variety of exoplanets and planetary-system…

Wasp-10b is a very interesting transiting extrasolar planet. Although its transit is very deep, about 40 mmag, there are very different estimates of its radius in the literature. We present new photometric observations of four complete…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-09 Tereza Krejcova , Jan Budaj , Viktoria Krushevska

We present an optical transmission spectrum for WASP-94A b, the first atmospheric characterisation of this highly-inflated hot Jupiter. The planet has a reported radius of $1.72^{+0.06}_{-0.05}$ R$_{\textrm{Jup}}$, a mass of only…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-10 E. Ahrer , P. J. Wheatley , J. Kirk , S. Gandhi , G. W. King , T. Louden

Eleven transit light curves for the exoplanet WASP-140b were studied with the primary objective to investigate the possibility of transit timing variations (TTVs). Previously unstudied MicroObservatory and Las Cumbres Global Telescope…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-23 Allen North , Timothy Banks