KELT-7b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright V=8.54 rapidly rotating F-star

Allyson Bieryla, Karen Collins, Thomas G. Beatty +31

We report the discovery of KELT-7b, a transiting hot Jupiter with a mass of $1.28\pm 0.18$ MJ, radius of $1.53_{-0.047}^{+0.046}$ RJ, and an orbital period of $2.7347749 \pm 0.000…