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Volume 520, September-October 2010
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Article Number | A56 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014705 | |
Published online | 04 October 2010 |
WASP-26b: a 1-Jupiter-mass planet around an early-G-type star
B. Smalley1 -
D. R. Anderson1 -
A. Collier Cameron2 -
M. Gillon3,4 -
C. Hellier1 -
T. A. Lister5 -
P. F. L. Maxted1 -
D. Queloz4 -
A. H. M. J. Triaud4 -
R. G. West6 -
S. J. Bentley1 -
B. Enoch2 -
F. Pepe4 -
D. L. Pollacco7 -
D. Segransan4 -
A. M. S. Smith1 -
J. Southworth1 -
S. Udry4 -
P. J. Wheatley8 -
P. L. Wood1 -
J. Bento8
1 -
Astrophysics Group, Keele University,
Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
2 -
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews,
North Haugh, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
3 -
Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université
de Liège, 17 Allée du 6 Août, Bât. B5C, Liège 1, Belgium
4 -
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51
Chemin des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
5 -
Las Cumbres Observatory, 6740 Cortona Dr. Suite 102,
Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA
6 -
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
7 -
Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics
& Physics, Queen's University, University Road, Belfast,
BT7 1NN, UK
8 -
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Received 1 April 2010 / Accepted 24 June 2010
Abstract
We report the discovery of WASP-26b, a moderately over-sized
Jupiter-mass exoplanet transiting its 11.3-mag early-G-type host star
(1SWASP J001824.70-151602.3; TYC 5839-876-1) every 2.7566 days. A simultaneous
fit to transit photometry and radial-velocity measurements yields a planetary
mass of
and radius of
.
The host star, WASP-26, has a mass of
and a
radius of
and is in a visual double with a fainter
K-type star. The two stars are at least a common-proper motion pair with a
common distance of around
pc and an age of
Gy.
Key words: planets and satellites: general - stars: individual: WASP-26 - binaries: visual - techniques: photometric - techniques: spectroscopic - techniques: radial velocities
1 Introduction
Most of the known exoplanets have been discovered using the radial velocity technique (Mayor & Queloz 1995). However, in recent years an increasing number have been discovered using the transit technique, via ground-based and space-based survey projects. Transiting exoplanets allow parameters such as the mass, radius, and density to be accurately determined, as well as their atmospheric properties to be studied during their transits and occultations (Winn 2009; Charbonneau et al. 2005; Southworth 2009).
The SuperWASP project has a robotic observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands and another in Sutherland in South Africa. The wide angle survey is designed to find planets around relatively bright stars in the V-magnitude range 9-13. A detailed description is given in Pollacco et al. (2006).
In this paper we report the discovery of WASP-26b, a Jupiter-mass planet in orbit around its V = 11.3 mag host star 1SWASP J001824.70-151602.3 in the constellation Cetus. We present the SuperWASP-South discovery photometry, together with follow-up optical photometry and radial velocity measurements.
2 Observations
2.1 SuperWASP photometry
The host star WASP-26 (1SWASP J001824.70-151602.3; TYC 5839-876-1) was within two fields observed by SuperWASP-South during the 2008 and 2009 observing seasons, covering the intervals 2008 June 30 to November 17 and 2009 June 28 to November 17. A total of 18 807 data points were obtained. The pipeline-processed data were de-trended and searched for transits using the methods described in Collier Cameron et al. (2006), yielding a detection of a periodic, transit-like signature with a period of 2.7566 days and a depth of 0.009 mag (Fig. 1).
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Figure 1: SuperWASP photometry of WASP-26 folded on the orbital of period of 2.7566 days. |
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There is a second star (1SWASP J001825.25-151613.8; USNO-B1 0747-0003869),
2.5 mag fainter, 15
from WASP-26. Both stars are contained
within the 3.5-pixel (
)
reduction aperture. Hence, from the
SuperWASP photometry alone, we could not be totally sure that WASP-26 was the
star varying and not the fainter one in deep eclipse. Targeted photometry was
obtained to confirm that the transit signature was indeed from WASP-26 (see
Sect. 2.3).
2.2 Spectroscopic observations with CORALIE
Spectroscopic observations were obtained with the CORALIE spectrograph on the
Swiss 1.2 m telescope. The data were processed using the standard pipeline
(Baranne et al. 1996; Queloz et al. 2000; Pepe et al. 2002). A total of
16 radial velocity (RV) measurements were made between 2009 June 19 and 2009
September 22 (Table 1). The resulting radial velocity curve is shown
in Fig. 2. The possibility that the transits could occur in an
unresolved binary companion is tested by examining the bisector
span (
), which shows no evidence of the correlation with RV
(Fig. 3) that would normally betray the system as an astrophysical
impostor of this type (Queloz et al. 2001).
Table 1:
Radial velocity (RV) and line bisector spans (
)
measurements for WASP-26 obtained by CORALIE spectra.
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Figure 2:
Radial velocity curve of WASP-26.
The solid line is the best-fitting MCMC solution.
The centre-of-mass velocity, |
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Figure 3:
Line bisectors (
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2.3 Photometry with Faulkes Telescopes
WASP-26 was observed photometrically on 2009 November 18 using the 2.0-m Faulkes
Telescope South (FTS, Siding Spring, Australia) and on 2009 December 2 using the
2.0-m Faulkes Telescope North (FTN, Maui, Hawai'i), both telescopes being
operated by LCOGT. In both cases, a new Spectral CCD
imager was used along with a Pan-STARRS-zfilter. The Spectral instrument contains a Fairchild CCD486 back-illuminated
pixel CCD which was binned
giving 0.303
pixels and a field of view of
.
The telescope was
defocussed a small amount during the observations to prevent saturation in the
core of the PSF but not by enough to cause blending problems with the close
(
15
)
fainter companion.
The frames were pre-processed through the WASP Pipeline
(Pollacco et al. 2006) to perform overscan correction, bias subtraction and
flat-fielding. The DAOPHOT photometry package within IRAF was used to perform
object detection and aperture photometry using aperture radii of 9 and 10 pixels
for the FTS and FTN data, respectively. Differential photometry was performed
relative to several comparison stars within the field of view.
Figure 4 shows the transit photometry. The large scatter in the FTN
observations suggests that they were somewhat affected by cloud. The FTS
and FTN photometry confirms that the transit occurs in the brighter star of
the visual pair, eliminating the possibility of a resolved blend with an
eclipsing binary within the WASP photometric aperture.
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Figure 4: Faulkes Telescope photometry of transits of WASP-26b. The upper plot is from FTS on 2009 November 18 and the lower one from FTN 2009 December 2. Note that the FTN lightcurve is somewhat affected by cloud. The solid line is the best-fit MCMC solution. |
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3 Spectral analysis of host star
The individual CORALIE spectra of WASP-26 were co-added to produce a single spectrum with an average S/N of around 70:1. The standard pipeline reduction products were used in the analysis.
The analysis was performed using the methods given in
Gillon et al. (2009) and Smalley (2005). The H
line
was used to determine the effective temperature (
), while the
Na I D and Mg I b lines were used as surface gravity (
)
diagnostics. The parameters obtained from the analysis are listed in
Table 2. The elemental abundances were determined from
equivalent width measurements of several clean and unblended lines. The quoted
error estimates include that given by the uncertainties in
,
and
,
as well as the scatter due to measurement and atomic data
uncertainties.
The projected stellar rotation velocity ()
was determined by fitting
the profiles of several unblended Fe I lines. A value for macroturbulence
(
)
of
km s-1 was assumed, based on the
tabulation by Gray (2008), and an instrumental FWHM of
Å, determined from the telluric lines around 6300 Å. A best fitting
value of
km s-1 was obtained.
Table 2: Stellar parameters of WASP-26.
The lithium abundance in WASP-26 implies an age of several (5) Gy according
to Sestito & Randich (2005). The measured
of WASP-26 implies a
rotational period of
days, which yields
gyrochronological age of
7+24-4 Gy using the relation of
Barnes (2007). A search for rotational modulation due to starspots
yielded a null result, which is consistent with the lack of stellar activity
indicated by the absence of calcium H+K emission in the CORALIE spectra.
4 Planetary system parameters
To determine the planetary and orbital parameters the CORALIE radial velocity measurements were combined with the photometry from WASP and Faulkes Telescopes in a simultaneous fit using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique. The details of this process are described in Collier Cameron et al. (2007) and Pollacco et al. (2008). Four sets of solutions were used: with and without the main-sequence mass-radius constraint for both circular and floating eccentricity orbits.
With the main-sequence constraint imposed and the eccentricity floating, a value of e = 0.036+0.031-0.027 is found, which is significant only at the 22% level (Lucy & Sweeney 1971). The fit is indistinguishable from that with e = 0, and has very little effect on the planetary radius determined. Hence, a circular planetary orbit solution was adopted. Relaxing the main-sequence mass-radius constraint increased the impact parameter (b) and the stellar and planetary radii. Table 3 gives the best-fit MCMC solution.
The value of the stellar mass was determined as part of the MCMC process,
using the empirical calibration of Enoch et al. (2010) in which the
stellar mass is estimated as a function of effective temperature, metallicity
and stellar density. The eclipsing-binary masses and radii of
Torres et al. (2010) provide the calibration sample. The uncertainty in
the derived stellar mass is dominated by the uncertainties in the
spectroscopic values of
and [Fe/H] as given in
Table 2. At each step in the Markov chain, these quantities
are given random gaussian perturbations, and controlled by priors assuming
gaussian random errors in the spectroscopic values. The stellar density is
derived at each step in the chain from the scaled stellar radius
and the impact parameter (b). The uncertainty in the stellar mass given in
Table 2 is computed directly from the posterior probability
distribution, and takes the uncertainties in
,
[Fe/H] and
fully into account. The uncertainty in the final stellar mass
estimate is of order 3 percent, which is comparable to the intrinsic scatter
in the calibration of the Torres et al. (2010) data. The posterior
probability distribution for the stellar radius follows from the mass and
density values at each step in the chain. The stellar mass and radius
determined by the MCMC analysis (given in Table 2) are
consistent with the slightly evolved nature of WASP-26 (see
Sect. 5).
Table 3: System parameters for WASP-26b.
5 WASP-26 and the companion star
The visual double were investigated to determine whether they are physically
associated or just an optical double. Comparing the Palomar Observatory Sky
Survey (POSS-I) plates from the 1950s with more recent 2MASS images, shows that
there has been relative changes of
in the separation and
in position angle for the two stars over a period of some 50
years. This suggests that the system is at least a common proper motion pair.
The only proper motion measurements available for the companion are those given
in the UCAC3 catalogue (Zacharias et al. 2010). This lists the proper
motions of WASP-26 as
mas y-1 and
mas y-1, while those of the companion are given as
mas y-1 and
mas y-1, respectively.
The catalogue cautions that the values for the companion star are based on only
two position measurements and, thus, may not be reliable. In fact, if correct,
the UCAC3 proper motions would imply a change in separation of several
arcseconds over 50 years. This is clearly not supported by the survey images.
Using archival catalogue broad-band photometry from TYCHO, NOMAD, CMC14, DENIS
and 2MASS, bolometric magnitudes (
)
for WASP-26 and the companion
star are estimated to be
and
,
respectively. Using
the Infrared Flux Method (IRFM) (Blackwell & Shallis 1977) and the 2MASS
magnitudes, the
and angular diameter (
)
of the two stars
are found to be:
K and
mas, and
K and
mas, respectively. The IRFM
for WASP-26 is in good
agreement with that obtained from the spectroscopic analysis
(Table 2). A temperature-absolute bolometric magnitude
(
-
)
diagram for the two stars was constructed using
the evolutionary models of Marigo et al. (2008) (Fig. 5). A
distance modulus of
(
pc) was required to bring
the companion star on to the main sequence. This is in good agreement with a
distance of
pc to WASP-26 obtained using the radius determined from
MCMC analysis (Sect. 4). Hence, WASP-26 has evolved off the ZAMS with
an age of around
Gy, which is in agreement with that estimated from
both lithium-depletion and gyrochronology (see Sect. 3).
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Figure 5:
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There is clear evidence that the two stars appear to be physically associated.
At a distance of 250 pc, the 15
projected-separation on the sky
corresponds to a physical separation of at least 3800 AU, implying an orbital
period of more than 170 000 years.
6 Conclusion
WASP-26b is a moderately over-sized Jupiter-mass exoplanet transiting a G0 host
star every 2.7566 days. A simultaneous fit to transit photometry and
radial-velocity measurements gave a planetary mass of
and radius of
.
The mass and radius of
WASP-26b place it within the group of bloated hot Jupiters with similar
properties to HAT-P-5b (Bakos et al. 2007), HAT-P-6b
(Noyes et al. 2008) and WASP-24b (Street et al. 2010). The incident flux
received by WASP-26b is
erg s-1 cm-2, which is
clearly within the theoretical ``pM'' planetary class proposed by
Fortney et al. (2008). This class of planets have strong TiO and VO
absorption in the optical and hot stratospheres which make them appear bright in
the mid-infrared. With predicted IRAC channels 1 and 2 signal-to-noise for a
single eclipse of
10:1, WASP-26b appears to be a suitable target for Spitzer observations. The Safronov number for this planet,
,
and its equilibrium temperature of
K, places it
close to the boundary between Class I and Class II planets as defined by
Hansen & Barman (2007). However, while these two classes might not be
statistically significant (Fressin et al. 2009), WASP-26b may prove to be
an interesting test case.
The host star, WASP-26, and its K-type companion are at least a common-proper
motion pair with a common distance of around
pc and an age of
approximately
Gy. With a physical separation of at least 3800 AU, the
companion star is unlikely to have any significant influence on the planetary
system's dynamics (Desidera & Barbieri 2007). Spectroscopic confirmation of the
stellar parameters of the K-type companion should further improve the distance
and age determination of this system.
The WASP Consortium comprises astronomers primarily from the Universities of Keele, Leicester, The Open University, Queen's University Belfast, the University of St Andrews, the Isaac Newton Group (La Palma), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife) and the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). WASP-South is hosted by SAAO and their support and assistance is gratefully acknowledged. M. Gillon acknowledges support from the Belgian Science Policy Office in the form of a Return Grant. This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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All Tables
Table 1:
Radial velocity (RV) and line bisector spans (
)
measurements for WASP-26 obtained by CORALIE spectra.
Table 2: Stellar parameters of WASP-26.
Table 3: System parameters for WASP-26b.
All Figures
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Figure 1: SuperWASP photometry of WASP-26 folded on the orbital of period of 2.7566 days. |
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In the text |
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Figure 2:
Radial velocity curve of WASP-26.
The solid line is the best-fitting MCMC solution.
The centre-of-mass velocity, |
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In the text |
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Figure 3:
Line bisectors (
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 4: Faulkes Telescope photometry of transits of WASP-26b. The upper plot is from FTS on 2009 November 18 and the lower one from FTN 2009 December 2. Note that the FTN lightcurve is somewhat affected by cloud. The solid line is the best-fit MCMC solution. |
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In the text |
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Figure 5:
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In the text |
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