Discovery of WASP-65b and WASP-75b: two hot Jupiters without highly inflated radii

Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, F. Faedi, D. Pollacco, D. J. A. Brown, A. P. Doyle, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon, M. Lendl, B. Smalley, A. H M J Triaud, R. G. West, P. J. Wheatley, R. Busuttil, C. Liebig, D. R. Anderson, D. J. Armstrong, S. C C Barros, J. Bento, J. Bochinski, V. BurwitzL. Delrez, B. Enoch, A. Fumel, C. A. Haswell, G. Hébrard, C. Hellier, S. Holmes, E. Jehin, U. Kolb, P. F L Maxted, J. McCormac, G. R M Miller, A. J. Norton, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, J. Rodríguez, D. Ségransan, I. Skillen, K. G. Stassun, S. Udry, C. Watson

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    Abstract

    We report the discovery of two transiting hot Jupiters, WASP-65b (Mpl = 1.55 ± 0.16 MJ; Rpl = 1.11 ± 0.06 RJ), and WASP-75b (Mpl = 1.07 ± 0.05 MJ; Rpl = 1.27 ± 0.05 RJ). They orbit their host star every ?2.311, and ?2.484 days, respectively. The planet host WASP-65 is a G6 star (Teff = 5600 K, [Fe/H] = ?0.07 ± 0.07, age 8 Gyr); WASP-75 is an F9 star (Teff = 6100 K, [Fe/H] = 0.07 ± 0.09, age ? 3 Gyr).WASP-65b is one of the densest known exoplanets in the mass range 0.1 and 2.0 MJ (?pl = 1.13 ± 0.08 ?J), a mass range where a large fraction of planets are found to be inflated with respect to theoretical planet models. WASP-65b is one of only a handful of planets with masses of ?1.5 MJ, a mass regime surprisingly underrepresented among the currently known hot Jupiters. The radius of WASP-75b is slightly inflated (10%) as compared to theoretical planet models with no core, and has a density similar to that of Saturn (?pl = 0.52 ± 0.06 ?J).

    Original languageEnglish
    Article numberA36
    Pages (from-to)1-11
    Number of pages11
    JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
    Volume559
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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