WASP-92b, WASP-93b and WASP-118b: three new transiting close-in giant planets

Hay, K. L.; Collier-Cameron, A.; Doyle, A. P.; Hébrard, G.; Skillen, I.; Anderson, D. R.; Barros, S. C. C.; Brown, D. J. A.; Bouchy, F.; Busuttil, R.; Delorme, P.; Delrez, L.; Demangeon, O.; Díaz, R. F.; Gillon, M.; Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y.; Gonzàlez, E.; Hellier, C.; Holmes, S.; Jarvis, J. F.; Jehin, E.; Joshi, Y. C.; Kolb, U.; Lendl, M.; Maxted, P. F. L.; McCormac, J.; Miller, G. R. M.; Mortier, A.; Pallé, E.; Pollacco, D.; Prieto-Arranz, J.; Queloz, D.; Ségransan, D.; Simpson, E. K.; Smalley, B.; Southworth, J.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Turner, O. D.; Udry, S.; Vanhuysse, M.; West, R. G. and Wilson, P. A. (2016). WASP-92b, WASP-93b and WASP-118b: three new transiting close-in giant planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(3) pp. 3276–3289.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2090

Abstract

We present the discovery of three new transiting giant planets, first detected with the WASP telescopes, and establish their planetary nature with follow up spectroscopy and ground-based photometric lightcurves. WASP-92 is an F7 star, with a moderately inflated planet orbiting with a period of 2.17 days, which has R_p = 1.461 ± 0.077R_J and M_p = 0.805 ± 0.068M_J. WASP-93b orbits its F4 host star every 2.73 days and has R_p = 1.597 ± 0.077R_J and M_p = 1.47 ± 0.029M_J. WASP-118b also has a hot host star (F6) and is moderately inflated, where R_p = 1.440 ± 0.036R_J and M_p = 0.513 ± 0.041M_J and the planet has an orbital period of 4.05 days. They are bright targets (V = 13.18, 10.97 and 11.07 respectively) ideal for further characterisation work, particularly WASP-118b, which is being observed by K2 as part of campaign 8. WASP-93b is expected to be tidally migrating outwards, which is divergent from the tidal behaviour of the majority of hot Jupiters discovered.

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