Issue |
A&A
Volume 551, March 2013
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Article Number | A11 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220291 | |
Published online | 11 February 2013 |
A lower radius and mass for the transiting extrasolar planet HAT-P-8 b⋆
1
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117
Heidelberg,
Germany
e-mail: mancini@mpia.de
2
Department of Physics, University of Salerno,
Via Ponte Don Melillo,
84084
Fisciano ( SA), Italy
3
Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
4
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of
California, Santa
Cruz, CA
95064,
USA
5
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden Street, MS 10,
Cambridge, MA
02138,
USA
6
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Via Ranzani
1, 40127
Bologna,
Italy
7
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo Osservatorio
5, 35122
Padova,
Italy
Received: 27 August 2012
Accepted: 15 December 2012
Context. The extrasolar planet HAT-P-8 b was thought to be one of the more inflated transiting hot Jupiters.
Aims. By using new and existing photometric data, we computed precise estimates of the physical properties of the system.
Methods. We present photometric observations comprising eleven light curves covering six transit events, obtained using five medium-class telescopes and telescope-defocussing technique. One transit was simultaneously obtained through four optical filters, and two transits were followed contemporaneously from two observatories. We modelled these and seven published datasets using the jktebop code. The physical parameters of the system were obtained from these results and from published spectroscopic measurements. In addition, we investigated the theoretically-predicted variation of the apparent planetary radius as a function of wavelength, covering the range 330–960 nm.
Results. We find that HAT-P-8 b has a significantly lower radius (1.321 ± 0.037 RJup) and mass (1.275 ± 0.053 MJup) compared to previous estimates ( and
respectively). We also detect a radius variation in the optical bands that, when compared with synthetic spectra of the planet, may indicate the presence of a strong optical absorber, perhaps TiO and VO gases, near the terminator of HAT-P-8 b.
Conclusions. These new results imply that HAT-P-8 b is not significantly inflated, and that its position in the planetary mass-radius diagram is congruent with those of many other transiting extrasolar planets.
Key words: planets and satellites: fundamental parameters / stars: fundamental parameters / stars: individual: HAT-P-8
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