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Guenther, Eike W.; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Smalley, Barry; Rodler, F.; Rebolo, R.
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PLANETARY SYSTEMS BEYOND THE MAIN SEQUENCE: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1331, pp. 95-101 (2011).
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Most of the known transiting extrasolar planets orbit slowly rotating F,
G or K stars. In here we report on the detection of a transiting planet
orbiting the bright, rapidly rotating A5 star HD15082 (WASP-33b, V =
8.3, m sin i = 86 kms-1), recently made by SuperWASP. Time
resolved spectroscopic observations taken during transit show a hump
caused by the planet crossing the line profile. From the analysis of the
spectra, we derive the radius of the planet and find that it is orbiting
retrograde in respect to the spin of the star. Because of its small
distance from an A5 star (the orbital period of only 1.22 days), the
equilibrium temperature of the planet is estimated to be 2700 K. The
planet thus is one of the hottest planets known, which makes it
relatively easy to detect it in the IR. We thus tried to detect it using
the TNG but did not succeed.