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WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175, and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-South.
Document Type
Article
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oct2019, Vol. 489 Issue 2, p2478-2487. 10p.
Subject
*HOT Jupiters
*PLANETARY mass
*SATURN (Planet)
*BINARY stars
*GAS giants
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ISSN
0035-8711
Abstract
We present the discovery of four new giant planets from the Wide Angle Search for Planets-South (WASP-South), three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet: WASP-169b, WASP-171b, WASP-175b, and WASP-182b. Besides the discovery photometry from WASP-South we use radial velocity measurements from CORALIE and HARPS and follow-up photometry from EulerCam, TRAPPIST-North and -South, and SPECULOOS. WASP-169b is a low-density Jupiter (⁠|$M=0.561 \pm 0.061\,{M_{\rm Jup}},\ R=1.304^{+0.150}_{-0.073}\,{R_{\rm Jup}}$|⁠) orbiting a V  = 12.17 F8 subgiant in a 5.611 d orbit. WASP-171b is a typical hot Jupiter (⁠|$M=1.084 \pm 0.094\,{M_{\rm Jup}},\ R=0.98^{+0.07}_{-0.04}\,{R_{\rm Jup}}$|⁠ , P  = 3.82 d) around a V  = 13.05 G0 star. We find a linear drift in the radial velocities of WASP-171 spanning 3.5 yr, indicating the possibility of an additional outer planet or stellar companion. WASP-175b is an inflated hot Jupiter (M  = 0.99 ± 0.13  M Jup, R  = 1.208 ± 0.081  R Jup, P  = 3.07 d) around a V  = 12.04 F7 star, which possibly is part of a binary system with a star 7.9 arcsec away. WASP-182b is a bloated sub-Saturn mass planet (M  = 0.148 ± 0.011  M Jup, R  = 0.850 ± 0.030  R Jup) around a metal-rich V  = 11.98 G5 star ([Fe/H] = 0.27 ± 0.11). With an orbital period of P  = 3.377 d, it sits right in the apex of the sub-Jovian desert, bordering the upper and lower edge of the desert in both the mass–period and radius–period plane. WASP-169b, WASP-175b, and WASP-182b are promising targets for atmospheric characterization through transmission spectroscopy, with expected transmission signals of 121, 150, and 264 ppm, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]