HATS-9b and HATS-10b: Two Compact Hot Jupiters in Field 7 of the K2 Mission

Abstract

We report the discovery of two transiting extrasolar planets by the HATSouth survey. HATS-9b orbits an old (10.8 $\pm$ 1.5 Gyr) V=13.3 G dwarf star, with a period P = 1.9153 d. The host star has a mass of 1.03 M${}_{\odot }$, radius of 1.503 R${}_{\odot }$ and effective temperature 5366 $\pm$ 70 K. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.837 M${}_J$, and radius of 1.065 R${}_J$ yielding a mean density of 0.85 g cm${}^{-3}$ . HATS-10b orbits a V=13.1 G dwarf star, with a period P = 3.3128 d. The host star has a mass of 1.1 M${}_{\odot }$, radius of 1.11 R${}_{\odot }$ and effective temperature 5880 $\pm$ 120 K. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.53 M${}_J$, and radius of 0.97 R${}_J$ yielding a mean density of 0.7 g cm${}^{-3}$ . Both planets are compact in comparison with planets receiving similar irradiation from their host stars, and lie in the nominal coordinates of Field 7 of K2 but only HATS-9b falls on working silicon. Future characterisation of HATS-9b with the exquisite photometric precision of the Kepler telescope may provide measurements of its reflected light signature.

15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in AJ