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O'Donovan, Francis T.; Charbonneau, David; Mandushev, Georgi; Dunham, Edward W.; Latham, David W.; Torres, Guillermo; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Brown, Timothy M.; Trauger, John T.; Belmonte, Juan A.; Rabus, Markus; Almenara, José M.; Alonso, Roi; Deeg, Hans J.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Falco, Emilio E.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A.; Roussanova, Anna; Stefanik, Robert P.; Winn, Joshua N.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 651, Issue 1, pp. L61-L64.
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2006
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173
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151
Description
We announce the discovery of the second transiting hot Jupiter
discovered by the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey. The planet, which we
dub TrES-2, orbits the nearby star GSC 03549-02811 every 2.47063 days.
From high-resolution spectra, we determine that the star has
Teff=5960+/-100 K and logg=4.4+/-0.2, implying a spectral
type of G0 V and a mass of 1.08+0.11-0.05
Msolar. High-precision radial velocity measurements confirm a
sinusoidal variation with the period and phase predicted by the
photometry, and rule out the presence of line bisector variations that
would indicate that the spectroscopic orbit is spurious. We estimate a
planetary mass of 1.28+0.09-0.04MJup.
We model B, r, R, and I photometric time series of the 1.4% deep
transits and find a planetary radius of
1.24+0.09-0.06RJup. This planet lies
within the field of view of the NASA Kepler mission, ensuring that
hundreds of upcoming transits will be monitored with exquisite precision
and permitting a host of unprecedented investigations.
Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck
Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among
Caltech, the University of California, and NASA. The Observatory was
made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck
Foundation.