HAT-P-26b: A LOW-DENSITY NEPTUNE-MASS PLANET TRANSITING A K STAR

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Hartman, J. D. [1 ]
Bakos, G. A. [1 ]
Kipping, D. M. [1 ,2 ]
Torres, G. [1 ]
Kovacs, G. [3 ]
Noyes, R. W. [1 ]
Latham, D. W. [1 ]
Howard, A. W. [4 ]
Fischer, D. A. [5 ]
Johnson, J. A. [6 ]
Marcy, G. W. [4 ]
Isaacson, H. [4 ]
Quinn, S. N. [1 ]
Buchhave, L. A. [1 ,7 ]
Beky, B. [1 ]
Sasselov, D. D. [1 ]
Stefanik, R. P. [1 ]
Esquerdo, G. A. [1 ]
Everett, M. [1 ]
Perumpilly, G. [1 ,8 ]
Lazar, J. [9 ]
Papp, I. [9 ]
Sari, P. [9 ]
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[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London, England
[3] Konkoly Observ Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] Yale Univ, Dept Astron, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
[6] CALTECH, Dept Astrophys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[8] Univ S Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
[9] Hungarian Astron Assoc, Budapest, Hungary
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2011年 / 728卷 / 02期
关键词
planetary systems; stars:; individual; (HAT-P-26; GSC; 0320-01027); techniques: photometric; techniques: spectroscopic; SUPER-EARTH; ECLIPSING BINARIES; ATMOSPHERIC LOSS; BLEND SCENARIOS; OPEN CLUSTERS; HOT-JUPITERS; LIGHT CURVES; STELLAR; EVOLUTION; ALGORITHM;
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10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/138
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We report the discovery of HAT-P-26b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V = 11.744 K1 dwarf star GSC 0320-01027, with a period P = 4.234516 +/- 0.000015 days, transit epoch T-c = 2455304.65122 +/- 0.00035 ( BJD; Barycentric Julian dates throughout the paper are calculated from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), and transit duration 0.1023 +/- 0.0010 days. The host star has a mass of 0.82 +/- 0.03 M-circle dot, radius of 0.79(0.04)(+0.10) R-circle dot, effective temperature 5079 +/- 88 K, and metallicity [Fe/H] = -0.04 +/- 0.08. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.059 +/- 0.007 M-J, and radius of 0.565(-0.032)(+0.072) R-J yielding a mean density of 0.40 +/- 0.10 g cm(-3). HAT-P-26b is the fourth Neptune-mass transiting planet discovered to date. It has a mass that is comparable to those of Neptune and Uranus, and slightly smaller than those of the other transiting Super-Neptunes, but a radius that is similar to 65% larger than those of Neptune and Uranus, and also larger than those of the other transiting Super-Neptunes. HAT-P-26b is consistent with theoretical models of an irradiated Neptune-mass planet with a 10 M-circle plus heavy element core that comprises greater than or similar to 50% of its mass with the remainder contained in a significant hydrogen-helium envelope, though the exact composition is uncertain as there are significant differences between various theoretical models at the Neptune-mass regime. The equatorial declination of the star makes it easily accessible to both Northern and Southern ground-based facilities for follow-up observations.
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