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WASP-43 b is one of the most important candidates for detecting an orbital decay. We investigate pieces of evidence for this expectation as variations in its transit timings, based on the ground and space observations. The data set includes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Fatemeh Davoudi , Özgür Baştürk , Selçuk Yalçınkaya , Ekrem M. Esmer , Hossein Safari

We present seven new transiting hot Jupiters from the WASP-South survey. The planets are all typical hot Jupiters orbiting stars from F4 to K0 with magnitudes of V = 10.3 to 12.5. The orbital periods are all in the range 3.9--4.6 d, the…

We have analyzed new and archival time series spectra taken six years apart during transits of the hot Jupiter WASP-33 b, and spectroscopically resolved the line profile perturbation caused by the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. The motion of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-29 Marshall C. Johnson , William D. Cochran , Andrew Collier Cameron , Daniel Bayliss

WASP-12 is a hot Jupiter system with an orbital period of $P= 1.1\textrm{ day}$, making it one of the shortest-period giant planets known. Recent transit timing observations by Maciejewski et al. (2016) and Patra et al. (2017) find a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Nevin N. Weinberg , Meng Sun , Phil Arras , Reed Essick

We report the discovery and characterisation of WASP-180Ab, a hot Jupiter confirmed by the detection of its Doppler shadow and by measuring its mass using radial velocities. We find the 0.9 $\pm$ 0.1 $M_{\rm Jup}$, 1.24 $\pm$ 0.04 $R_{\rm…

We report the discovery of a transiting planet with an orbital period of 3.05d orbiting the star TYC 7247-587-1. The star, WASP-41, is a moderately bright G8V star (V=11.6) with a metallicity close to solar ([Fe/H]=-0.08+-0.09). The star…

We report the discovery by the WASP transit survey of a highly-irradiated, massive (2.242 +/- 0.080 MJup) planet which transits a bright (V = 10.6), evolved F8 star every 2.9 days. The planet, WASP-71b, is larger than Jupiter (1.46 +/- 0.13…

From its discovery, the WASP-18 system with its massive transiting planet on a tight orbit was identified as a unique laboratory for studies on tidal planet-star interactions. In an analysis of Doppler data, which include five new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 G. Maciejewski , H. A. Knutson , A. W. Howard , H. Isaacson , E. Fernandez-Lajus , R. P. Di Sisto , C. Migaszewski

WASP-19b has the shortest orbital period of any known exoplanet, orbiting at only 1.2 times the Roche tidal radius. By observing the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect we show that WASP-19b's orbit is aligned, with lambda = 4.6 +/- 5.2 degrees.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Coel Hellier , D. R. Anderson , A. Collier Cameron , G. R. M. Miller , D. Queloz , B. Smalley , J. Southworth , A. H. M. J. Triaud

We present a detailed reanalysis of the atmospheric properties of WASP-19b, an ultra-hot Jupiter (1.14 M Jup, 1.41 R Jup) orbiting an active Sun-like star every 0.79 day. We reanalyze a transit and secondary eclipse of WASP-19b observed by…

TrES-5b is one of only three ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) with suggestions of a possibly decreasing orbital period that have persisted through multiple independent analyses (G. Maciejewski et al. 2021; S. R. Hagey et al. 2022; E. S. Ivshina &…

The class of exotic Jupiter-mass planets that orbit very close to their parent stars were not explicitly expected before their discovery. The recently found transiting planet WASP-12b has a mass Mp = 1.4(+/-0.1) Jupiter masses (MJ), a mean…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shu-lin Li , Neil Miller , Douglas N. C. Lin , Jonathan J. Fortney

We report the discovery of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting every 3.3610060 +0.0000022-0.0000035 days a mildly metal-poor solar-type star of magnitude V=11.9. A combined analysis of the WASP photometry, high-precision…

Stars with hot Jupiters tend to be rotating faster than other stars of the same age and mass. This trend has been attributed to tidal interactions between the star and planet. A constraint on the dissipation parameter $Q_\star'$ follows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Kaloyan Penev , L. G. Bouma , Joshua N. Winn , Joel D. Hartman

We present our analysis of the K2 short-cadence data of two previously known hot Jupiter exoplanets: WASP-55b and WASP-75b. The high precision of the K2 lightcurves enabled us to search for transit timing and duration variations, rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 B. J. M. Clark , D. R. Anderson , C. Hellier , O. D. Turner , T. Močnik

By analysing the K2 short-cadence data from Campaign 14 we detect phase-curve modulation in the light curve of the hot-Jupiter host star WASP-104. The ellipsoidal modulation is detected with high significance and in agreement with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 T. Močnik , C. Hellier , J. Southworth

Tidal interactions are one of the primary drivers of orbital evolution for massive planets with short orbital periods. Tidal dissipation within host stars can cause the orbits of such planets to decay. However, the mechanisms of tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Noah Sodickson , Samuel Grunblatt

We report twelve new transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-4b from the Transit Monitoring in the South Project (TraMoS) project. These transits are combined with all previously published transit data for this planet to provide an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Hoyer , M. Lopez-Morales , P. Rojo , V. Nascimbeni , S. Hidalgo , N. Astudillo-Defru , F. Concha , Y. Contreras , E. Servajean , T. C. Hinse

We report measurements of the sky-projected spin--orbit angles for three transiting hot Jupiters: two of which are in nearly polar orbits, WASP-100b and WASP-109b, and a third in a low obliquity orbit, WASP-72b. We obtained these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 B. C. Addison , S. Wang , M. C. Johnson , C. G. Tinney , D. J. Wright , D. Bayliss

We report the discovery by WASP of five planets orbiting moderately bright ($V$ = 11.0-12.9) Solar-type stars. WASP-137b, WASP-143b and WASP-146b are typical hot Jupiters in orbits of 3-4 d and with masses in the range 0.68--1.11 $M_{\rm…