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astro-ph.EP2012★ 46 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

R. A. Street, J. -Y. Choi, Y. Tsapras +129

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remark…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 132 cited

WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: four new transiting close-in giant planets

G. Hebrard, A. Collier Cameron, D. J. A. Brown +30

We present the discovery of four new transiting hot jupiters, detected mainly from SuperWASP-North and SOPHIE observations. These new planets, WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WAS…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 29 cited

WASP-71b: a bloated hot Jupiter in a 2.9-day, prograde orbit around an evolved F8 star

A. M. S. Smith, D. R. Anderson, F. Bouchy +20

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.…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 20 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-311: A planetary candidate below the threshold of reliable detection

J. C. Yee, L. -W. Hung, I. A. Bond +123

We analyze MOA-2010-BLG-311, a high magnification (A_max>600) microlensing event with complete data coverage over the peak, making it very sensitive to planetary signals. We fit th…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 114 cited

A Gas Giant Circumbinary Planet Transiting the F Star Primary of the Eclipsing Binary Star KIC 4862625 and the Independent Discovery and Characterization of the two transiting planets in the Kepler-47 System

Veselin B. Kostov, Peter McCullough, Tobias Hinse +5

We report the discovery of a transiting, gas giant circumbinary planet orbiting the eclipsing binary KIC 4862625 and describe our independent discovery of the two transiting planet…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 28 cited

WASP-54b, WASP-56b and WASP-57b: Three new sub-Jupiter mass planets from SuperWASP

F. Faedi, D. Pollacco, S. C. C. Barros +38

We present three newly discovered sub-Jupiter mass planets from the SuperWASP survey: WASP-54b is a heavily bloated planet of mass 0.636 \mj and radius 1.653$^{…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 159 cited

Hint of a transiting extended atmosphere on 55 Cancri b

David Ehrenreich, Vincent Bourrier, Xavier Bonfils +9

The naked-eye star 55 Cancri hosts a planetary system with five known planets, including a hot super-Earth (55 Cnc e) extremely close to its star and a farther out giant planet (55…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 78 cited

Orbital evolution of a planet on an inclined orbit interacting with a disc

Jean Teyssandier, Caroline Terquem, John C. B. Papaloizou

We study the dynamics of a planet on an orbit inclined with respect to a disc. If the initial inclination of the orbit is larger than some critical value, the gravitational force e…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 25 cited

Detection of Neptune-size planetary candidates with CoRoT data. Comparison with the planet occurrence rate derived from Kepler

Aldo S. Bonomo, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Magali Deleuil +10

[Abridged] Context. The CoRoT space mission has been searching for transiting planets since the end of December 2006. Aims. We aim to investigate the capability of CoRoT to detect…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 114 cited

GTC OSIRIS transiting exoplanet atmospheric survey: detection of sodium in XO-2b from differential long-slit spectroscopy

D. K. Sing, C. M. Huitson, M. Lopez-Morales +8

We present two transits of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet XO-2b using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). The time series observations were performed using long-slit spectroscopy of XO-…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 41 cited

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates VI. An additional companion in the KOI-13 system

A. Santerne, C. Moutou, S. C. C. Barros +7

We report the discovery of a new stellar companion in the KOI-13 system. KOI-13 is composed by two fast-rotating A-type stars of similar magnitude. One of these two stars hosts a t…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 19 cited

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

N. Miyake, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +78

We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 250 cited

Temporal variations in the evaporating atmosphere of the exoplanet HD 189733b

A. Lecavelier des Etangs, V. Bourrier, P. J. Wheatley +8

Atmospheric escape has been detected from the exoplanet HD 209458b through transit observations of the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line. Here we present spectrally resolved Lyman-alpha tr…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 139 cited

A hot Uranus transiting the nearby M dwarf GJ3470. Detected with HARPS velocimetry. Captured in transit with TRAPPIST photometry

X. Bonfils, M. Gillon, S. Udry +15

We report on the discovery of GJ3470b, a transiting hot Uranus of mass m_p = 14.0+-1.8 Mearth, radius R_p = 4.2+-0.6 Rearth and period P=3.3371+-0.0002 day. Its host star is a near…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 113 cited

ExELS: an exoplanet legacy science proposal for the ESA Euclid mission I. Cold exoplanets

M. T. Penny, E. Kerins, N. Rattenbury +11

Euclid is the second M-class mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision programme, with the principal science goal of studying dark energy. Euclid is also expected to undertake additional Le…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 183 cited

SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates VII. A false-positive rate of 35% for Kepler close-in giant exoplanet candidates

A. Santerne, R. F. Díaz, C. Moutou +6

The false-positive probability (FPP) of Kepler transiting candidates is a key value for statistical studies of candidate properties. A previous investigation of the stellar populat…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 77 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light

E. Bachelet, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +138

Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant pla…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 60 cited

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. V. Follow-up of ELODIE candidates: Jupiter-analogs around Sun-like stars

I. Boisse, F. Pepe, C. Perrier +21

We present radial-velocity measurements obtained in a programs underway to search for extrasolar planets with the spectrograph SOPHIE at the 1.93-m telescope of the Haute-Provence…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 27 cited

A New Type of Ambiguity in the Planet and Binary Interpretations of Central Perturbations of High-Magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events

J. -Y. Choi, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +118

High-magnification microlensing events provide an important channel to detect planets. Perturbations near the peak of a high-magnification event can be produced either by a planet…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 49 cited

Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect Measurements for WASP-16, WASP-25 and WASP-31

D. J. A. Brown, A. Collier Cameron, D. R. Anderson +13

We present new measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect for three WASP planetary systems, WASP-16, WASP-25 and WASP-31, from a combined analysis of their complete sets o…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 25 cited

OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly - brown dwarf or stellar binary?

V. Bozza, M. Dominik, N. J. Rattenbury +103

The microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-510 is characterised by an evident asymmetric shape of the peak, promptly detected by the ARTEMiS system in real time. The skewness of the ligh…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 113 cited

Observational constraints on tidal effects using orbital eccentricities

Nawal Husnoo, Frédéric Pont, Tsevi Mazeh +4

We have analysed radial velocity measurements for known transiting exoplanets to study the empirical signature of tidal orbital evolution for close-in planets. Compared to standard…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 198 cited

Temperature-Pressure Profile of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b from HST Sodium Observations: Detection of Upper Atmospheric Heating

Catherine M. Huitson, David K. Sing, Alfred Vidal-Madjar +4

We present transmission spectra of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard HST. The spectra cover the wavelength range 5808-6380 Ang w…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 91 cited

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXV. Super-Earths around the M-dwarf neighbors Gl433 and Gl667C

X. Delfosse, X. Bonfils, T. Forveille +11

M dwarfs have been found to often have super-Earth planets with short orbital periods. Such stars are thus preferential targets in searches for rocky or ocean planets in the solar…