WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption

Gillon, M.; Anderson, D.R.; Collier-Cameron, A.; Delrez, L.; Hellier, C.; Jehin, E.; Lendl, M.; Maxted, P.F.L.; Pepe, F.; Pollacco, D.; Queloz, D.; Ségransan, D.; Smith, A.M.S.; Smalley, B.; Southworth, J.; Triaud, A.H.M.J.; Udry, S.; Van Grootel, V.; West, R.G.

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201323014

Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, D., Brown, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Fumel, A., Gillon, M., …West, R. (2014). Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b. arXiv,

We present the discoveries of six transiting hot Jupiters: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b and WASP-112b. The planets have masses of 0.51--2.2 MJup and radii of 1.19--1.44 RJup and are in orbits of 1.68--3.78 d around stars with... Read More about Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b.

Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Doyle, A., Faedi, F., Fumel, A., …West, R. (2014). Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 1114 -1129. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1737

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-69b, WASP-70Ab and WASP-84b, each of which orbits a bright star (V ~ 10). WASP-69b is a bloated Saturn-mass planet (0.26 MJup, 1.06 RJup) in a 3.868-d period around an active, ~1-Gyr, mid-K dw... Read More about Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary.

KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes (2014)
Journal Article
Pápics, P., Moravveji, E., Aerts, C., Tkachenko, A., Triana, S., Bloemen, S., & Southworth, J. (2014). KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570, Article A8. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424094

Context. Massive stars are important for the chemical enrichment of the universe. Since internal mixing processes influence their lives, it is very important to place constraints on the corresponding physical parameters, such as core overshooting and... Read More about KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes.

Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her (2014)
Journal Article
Kolbas, V., Dervişoğlu, A., Pavlovski, K., & Southworth, J. (2014). Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), 3118 -3129. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1652

The chemical composition of stellar photospheres in mass-transferring binary systems is a precious diagnostic of the nucleosynthesis processes that occur deep within stars, and preserves information on the components’ history. The binary system u Her... Read More about Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her.

Observational Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Southworth, J. (2014). Observational Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets. In Living Together: planets, host stars and binaries (321 -336)

The study of transiting extrasolar planets is only 15 years old, but has matured into a rich area of research. I review the observational aspects of this work, concentrating on the discovery of transits, the characterization of planets from photometr... Read More about Observational Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets.

Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry (2014)
Journal Article
Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Ciceri, S., Calchi Novati, S., Dominik, M., Henning, T., …Wertz, O. (2014). Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 568, Article A127. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424106

Context. The extrasolar planet WASP-67 b is the first hot Jupiter definitively known to undergo only partial eclipses. The lack of the second and third contact points in this planetary system makes it difficult to obtain accurate measurements of its... Read More about Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26 (2014)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., Hinse, T., Burgdorf, M., Calchi Novati, S., Dominik, M., Galianni, P., …Vilela, C. (2014). High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(1), 776 -789. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1492

We present time series photometric observations of 13 transits in the planetary systems WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26. All three systems have orbital obliquity measurements, WASP-24 and WASP-26 have been observed with Spitzer, and WASP-25 was previous... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26.

HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component (2014)
Journal Article
Borkovits, T., Derekas, A., Fuller, J., Szabó, G., Pavlovski, K., Csák, B., …Jankovics, I. (2014). HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(4), 3068 - 3081. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1379

KIC 8560861 (HD 183648) is a marginally eccentric (e = 0.05) eclipsing binary with an orbital period of Porb = 31.973 d, exhibiting mmag amplitude pulsations on time-scales of a few days. We present the results of the complex analysis of high- and me... Read More about HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component.

KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability (2014)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D. W., Southworth, J., Cunha, M. S., & Clubb, K. I. (2014). KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(3), 2049 - 2062. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1303

We analyse the fifth rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star reported in the Kepler field, KIC 7582608, discovered with the SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project. The object shows a high-frequency pulsation at 181.7324 d-1 (P = 7.9 min) with a... Read More about KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability.

Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry (2014)
Journal Article
Biddle, L. I., Pearson, K. A., Crossfield, I. J. M., Fulton, B. J., Ciceri, S., Eastman, J., …Webber, M. W. (2014). Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(2), 1810-1820. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1199

It is important to explore the diversity of characteristics of low-mass, low-density planets to understand the nature and evolution of this class of planets. We present a homogeneous analysis of 12 new and 9 previously published broad-band photometri... Read More about Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry.

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆ (2014)
Journal Article
Desidera, S., Bonomo, A. S., Claudi, R. U., Damasso, M., Biazzo, K., Sozzetti, A., …Zanmar Sanchez, R. (2014). The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 567, Article L6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424339

We performed an intensive radial velocity monitoring of XO-2S, the wide companion of the transiting planet-host XO-2N, using HARPS-N at TNG in the framework of the GAPS programme. The radial velocity measurements indicate the presence of a new planet... Read More about The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆.

KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Holdsworth, D., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D., Southworth, J., Cunha, M., & Clubb, K. (2014, July). KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability. Poster presented at The Space Photometry Revolution – CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting, Toulouse, France

We analyse the fifth roAp star reported in the Kepler field, KIC 7582608, discovered with the SuperWASP project. The object shows a high frequency pulsation at 181.7324d-1 (P = 7.9 min) with an amplitude of 1.45 mmag, and low frequency rotational mod... Read More about KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability.

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b (2014)
Journal Article
Esposito, M., Covino, E., Mancini, L., Harutyunyan, A., Southworth, J., Biazzo, K., …Smareglia, R. (2014). The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, Article L13. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423735

The measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for transiting exoplanets places constraints on the orientation of the orbital axis with respect to the stellar spin axis, which can shed light on the mechanisms shaping the orbital configuration of p... Read More about The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b.

Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, B., Southworth, J., I. Pintado, O., Gillon, M., L. Holdsworth, D., R. Anderson, D., …J. Wheatley, P. (2014). Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, Article A69. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323158

The results of a search for eclipsing Am star binaries using photometry from the SuperWASP survey are presented. The light curves of 1742 Am stars fainter than V = 8.0 were analysed for the presence of eclipses. A total of 70 stars were found to exhi... Read More about Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey.

Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b (2014)
Journal Article
Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(3), 1982 -1992. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu410

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-95b, WASP-96b, WASP-97b, WASP-98b, WASP-99b, WASP-100b and WASP-101b. All are hot Jupiters with orbital periods in the range 2.1–5.7 d, masses of 0.5–2.8 MJup and radii of 1.1–1.4 RJup. The or... Read More about Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b.

Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars (2014)
Journal Article
Delrez, L., Van Grootel, V., Anderson, D., Collier-Cameron, A., Doyle, A., Fumel, A., …West, R. (2014). Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 563, Article A143. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323204

Using the WASP transit survey, we report the discovery of three new hot Jupiters, WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b. The planet WASP-68 bhas a mass of 0.95 ± 0.03 MJup, a radius of 1.24-0.06+0.10 RJup, and orbits a V = 10.7 G0-type star (1.24 ± 0.0... Read More about Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars.

KIC 3858884: a hybridδScuti pulsator in a highly eccentric eclipsing binary (2014)
Journal Article
Maceroni, C., Lehmann, H., da Silva, R., Montalbán, J., Lee, C., Ak, H., …Southworth, J. (2014). KIC 3858884: a hybridδScuti pulsator in a highly eccentric eclipsing binary. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 563, Article A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322871

Analysis of eclipsing binaries containing non-radial pulsators allows i) combining two different and independent sources of information on the internal structure and evolutionary status of the components and ii) studying the effects of tidal forces o... Read More about KIC 3858884: a hybridδScuti pulsator in a highly eccentric eclipsing binary.

Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-80 planetary system from multi-colour photometry (2014)
Journal Article
Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Ciceri, S., Dominik, M., Henning, T., Jørgensen, U. G., …Wertz, O. (2014). Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-80 planetary system from multi-colour photometry. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, Article A126. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323265

WASP-80 is one of only two systems known to contain a hot Jupiter which transits its M-dwarf host star. We present eight light curves of one transit event, obtained simultaneously using two defocussed telescopes. These data were taken through the Bes... Read More about Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-80 planetary system from multi-colour photometry.

High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger (2014)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Gillon, M., Clubb, K. I., Southworth, J., Maxted, P. F. L., …Wheatley, P. J. (2014). High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 2078 - 2095. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu094

We present the results of a survey using the WASP archive to search for high-frequency pulsations in F-, A- and B-type stars. Over 1.5 million targets have been searched for pulsations with amplitudes greater than 0.5 millimagnitude. We identify over... Read More about High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger.

WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption (2014)
Journal Article
Gillon, M., Anderson, D., Collier-Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Hellier, C., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, Article L3. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323014

We report the discovery of WASP-103?b, a new ultra-short-period planet (P = 22.2 h) transiting a 12.1 V-magnitude F8-type main-sequence star (1.22 ± 0.04 M?, 1.44-0.03+0.05 R?, Teff = 6110 ± 160 K). WASP-103?b is significantly more massive (1.49 ± 0.... Read More about WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption.

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