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A&A 498, L5-L8 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911954

Letter

Photometric and spectroscopic detection of the primary transit of the 111-day-period planet HD 80 606 b

C. Moutou¹, G. Hébrard², F. Bouchy^{2, 3}, A. Eggenberger⁴, I. Boisse², X. Bonfils⁴, D. Gravallon³, D. Ehrenreich⁴, T. Forveille⁴, X. Delfosse⁴, M. Desort⁴, A.-M. Lagrange⁴, C. Lovis⁵, M. Mayor⁵, F. Pepe⁵, C. Perrier⁴, F. Pont⁶, D. Queloz⁵, N. C. Santos⁷, D. Ségransan⁵, S. Udry⁵, and A. Vidal-Madjar<sup>2

1</sup>  Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, UMR 6110 CNRS, Université de Provence, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille Cedex 13, France
    e-mail: claire.Moutou@oamp.fr
²  Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
³  Observatoire de Haute-Provence, 04870 Saint-Michel l'Observatoire, France
⁴  Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
⁵  Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 Chemin des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
⁶  School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK
⁷  Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal

Received 25 February 2009 / Accepted 19 March 2009

Abstract
We report the detection of the primary transit of the extra-solar planet HD 80 606 b, thanks to photometric and spectroscopic observations performed at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, simultaneously with the CCD camera at the 120-cm telescope and the SOPHIE spectrograph on the 193-cm telescope. We observed the whole egress of the transit and partially its central part, in both datasets with the same timings. The ingress occurred before sunset so was not observed. The full duration of the transit was between 9.5 and 17.2 h. The data allows the planetary radius to be measured ( ) and other parameters of the system to be refined. Radial velocity measurements show the detection of a prograde Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, and provide a hint of a spin-orbit misalignment. If confirmed, this misalignment would corroborate the hypothesis that HD 80 606 b owes its unusual orbital configuration to Kozai migration. HD 80 606 b is by far the transiting planet on the longest period detected today. Its unusually small radius reinforces the observed relationship between the planet radius and the incident flux received from the star and opens new questions for theory. Orbiting a bright star (V=9), it opens opportunities for numerous follow-up studies.

Key words: stars: planetary systems -- techniques: photometric -- techniques: radial velocities -- stars: individual: HD 80 606

© ESO 2009

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