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DOI
Mandushev, Georgi; O'Donovan, Francis T.; Charbonneau, David; Torres, Guillermo; Latham, David W.; Bakos, Gáspár Á.; Dunham, Edward W.; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Fernández, José M.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Everett, Mark E.; Brown, Timothy M.; Rabus, Markus; Belmonte, Juan A.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 667, Issue 2, pp. L195-L198.
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2007
Journal
Citations
107
Refereed citations
96
Description
We report the discovery of TrES-4, a hot Jupiter that transits the star
GSC 02620-00648 every 3.55 days. From high-resolution spectroscopy of
the star, we estimate a stellar effective temperature of
Teff=6100+/-150 K, and from high-precision z and B photometry
of the transit we constrain the ratio of the semimajor axis a and the
stellar radius R* to be a/R*=6.03+/-0.13. We
compare these values to model stellar isochrones to constrain the
stellar mass to be M*=1.22+/-0.17 Msolar. Based on
this estimate and the photometric time series, we constrain the stellar
radius to be R*=1.738+/-0.092 Rsolar and the
planet radius to be Rp=1.674+/-0.094 RJup. We
model our radial velocity data assuming a circular orbit and find a
planetary mass of 0.84+/-0.10 MJup. Our radial velocity
observations rule out line-bisector variations that would indicate a
specious detection resulting from a blend of an eclipsing binary system.
TrES-4 has the largest radius and lowest density of any of the known
transiting planets. It presents a challenge to current models of the
physical structure of hot Jupiters and indicates that the diversity of
physical properties among the members of this class of exoplanets has
yet to be fully explored.