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Empirical evidence for tidal evolution in transiting planetary systems
Frederic Pont
Most transiting planets orbit very close to their parent star, causing strong tidal forces between the two bodies. Tidal interaction can modify the dynamics of the system through o…
Stellar activity of planetary host star HD 189733
I. Boisse, C. Moutou, A. Vidal-Madjar +20
Extra-solar planet search programs require high-precision velocity measurements. They need to study how to disentangle radial-velocity variations due to Doppler motion from the noi…
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission VI. CoRoT-Exo-3b: The first secure inhabitant of the brown-dwarf desert
M. Deleuil, H. J. Deeg, R. Alonso +2
Context. The CoRoT space mission routinely provides high-precision photometric measurements of thousands of stars that have been continuously observed for months. Aims. The discove…
The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b
R. G. West, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb +25
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter mass exoplanet transiting a magnitude V=11.7 host star 1SWASP J030928.54+304024.7. A simultaneous fit to the transit photometry and radial-…
Star-Planet Interactions
Evgenya Shkolnik, Suzanne Aigrain, Steven Cranmer +6
Much effort has been invested in recent years, both observationally and theoretically, to understand the interacting processes taking place in planetary systems consisting of a hot…
Searching for the secondary eclipse of CoRoT-Exo-2b and its transit timing variations
R. Alonso, S. Aigrain, F. Pont +2
With more than 80 transits observed in the CoRoT light curve with a cadence of 32 s, CoRoT-Exo-2b provides an excellent case to search for the secondary eclipse of the planet, with…
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission IV: CoRoT-Exo-4b: A transiting planet in a 9.2 day synchronous orbit
S. Aigrain, A. Collier Cameron, M. Ollivier +32
CoRoT, the first space-based transit search, provides ultra-high precision light curves with continuous time-sampling over periods, of up to 5 months. This allows the detection of…
Misaligned spin-orbit in the XO-3 planetary system?
G. Hebrard, F. Bouchy, F. Pont +20
The transiting extrasolar planet XO-3b is remarkable, with a high mass and eccentric orbit. The unusual characteristics make it interesting to test whether its orbital plane is par…
HAT-P-9b: A Low Density Planet Transiting a Moderately Faint F star
Avi Shporer, Gaspar A. Bakos, Francois Bouchy +14
We report the discovery of a planet transiting a moderately faint (V=12.3 mag) late F star, with an orbital period of 3.92289 +/- 0.00004 days. From the transit light curve and rad…
WASP-10b: a 3M_J, gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star
D. J. Christian, N. P. Gibson, E. K. Simpson +37
We report the discovery of WASP-10b, a new transiting extrasolar planet (ESP) discovered by the WASP Consortium and confirmed using NOT FIES and SOPHIE radial velocity data. A 3.09…
WASP-14b: 7.3 Mj transiting planet in an eccentric orbit
Y. C. Joshi, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron +38
We report the discovery of a 7.3 Mjup exoplanet WASP-14b, one of the most massive transiting exoplanets observed to date. The planet orbits the tenth-magnitude F5V star USNO-B1 111…
ELODIE metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters V. An intermediate-period Jovian planet orbiting HD45652
N. C. Santos, S. Udry, F. Bouchy +20
We present the detection of a 0.47 Jupiter mass planet in a 44-day period eccentric trajectory (e=0.39) orbiting the metal-rich star HD45652. This planet, the seventh giant planet…
Photometric Follow-up Observations of the Transiting Neptune-Mass Planet GJ 436b
Avi Shporer, Tsevi Mazeh, Frederic Pont +4
This paper presents multi-band photometric follow-up observations of the Neptune-mass transiting planet GJ 436b, consisting of 5 new ground-based transit light curves obtained in M…
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission III. The spectroscopic transit of CoRoT-Exo-2b with SOPHIE and HARPS
F. Bouchy, D. Queloz, M. Deleuil +34
We report on the spectroscopic transit of the massive hot-Jupiter CoRoT-Exo-2b observed with the high-precision spectrographs SOPHIE and HARPS. By modeling the radial velocity anom…
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission II. CoRoT-Exo-2b: A transiting planet around an active G star
R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin +40
Context. The CoRoT mission, a pioneer in exoplanet searches from space, has completed its first 150 days of continuous observations of ~12000 stars in the galactic plane. An analys…
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission I - CoRoT-Exo-1b: a low-density short-period planet around a G0V star
P. Barge, A. Baglin, M. Auvergne +35
Context. The pioneer space mission for photometric planet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12,000 stars in each of its fields of view; it is able to detect transit candidat…
WASP-5b: a dense, very-hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier +28
We report the discovery of WASP-5b, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a 12th-mag G-type star in the Southern hemisphere. The 1.6-d orbital period places WASP-5b in the class of very-h…
Rayleigh scattering in the transit spectrum of HD 189733b
A. Lecavelier des Etangs, F. Pont, A. Vidal-Madjar +1
The transit spectrum of the exoplanet HD 189733b has recently been obtained between 0.55 and 1.05 microns. Here we present an analysis of this spectrum. We develop first-order equa…
WASP-4b: a 12th-magnitude transiting hot-Jupiter in the Southern hemisphere
D. M. Wilson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier +29
We report the discovery of WASP-4b, a large transiting gas-giant planet with an orbital period of 1.34 days. This is the first planet to be discovered by the SuperWASP-South observ…