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.; WILSON, P. A.

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2016 vol. 463 p. 3276 - 3289

0035-8711

We present the discovery of three new transiting giant planets, firstdetected with the WASP telescopes, and establish their planetary naturewith follow up spectroscopy and ground-based photometric light curves.WASP-92 is an F7 star, with a moderately inflated planet orbiting with aperiod of 2.17 d, which has Rp = 1.461 ±0.077RJ and Mp = 0.805 ±0.068MJ. WASP-93b orbits its F4 host star every 2.73 d andhas Rp = 1.597 ± 0.077RJ and Mp= 1.47 ± 0.029MJ. WASP-118b also has a hot host star(F6) and is moderately inflated, where Rp = 1.440 ±0.036RJ and Mp = 0.514 ± 0.020MJand the planet has an orbital period of 4.05 d. They are bright targets(V = 13.18, 10.97 and 11.07, respectively) ideal for furthercharacterization work, particularly WASP-118b, which is being observedby K2 as part of campaign 8. The WASP-93 system has sufficient angularmomentum to be tidally migrating outwards if the system is nearspin-orbit alignment, which is divergent from the tidal behaviour of themajority of hot Jupiters discovered.