WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star in a visual binary

Abstract

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 $M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$, 1.24 $\pm$ 0.04 $R_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ planet to be in a misaligned, retrograde orbit around an F7 star with $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = 6500K and a moderate rotation speed of vsini = 19.9 km s${}^{-1}$. The host star is the primary of a $V$ = 10.7 binary, where a secondary separated by 5${}^{\prime \prime }$ ($\sim$1200 AU) contributes $\sim$30% of the light. WASP-180Ab therefore adds to a small sample of transiting hot Jupiters known in binary systems. A 4.6-day modulation seen in the WASP data is likely to be the rotational modulation of the companion star, WASP-180B.

9 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS