Three Hot-Jupiters on the upper edge of the mass-radius distribution: WASP-177, WASP-181 and WASP-183

Oliver D. Turner, D. R. Anderson, K. Barkaoui, F. Bouchy, Z. Benkhaldoun, D. J. A. Brown, A. Burdanov, A. Collier Cameron, E. Ducrot, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, L. D. Nielsen, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Queloz, D. SegransanB. Smalley, A. H. M. J. Triaud, S. Udry, R. G. West

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Abstract

We present the discovery of three transiting planets from the WASP survey, two hot-Jupiters: WASP-177 b (∼0.5 MJup, ∼1.6 RJup) in a 3.07-d orbit of a V = 12.6 K2 star, WASP-183 b (∼0.5 MJup, ∼1.5 RJup) in a 4.11-d orbit of a V = 12.8 G9/K0 star; and one hot-Saturn planet WASP-181 b (∼0.3 MJup, ∼1.2 RJup) in a 4.52-d orbit of a V = 12.9 G2 star. Each planet is close to the upper bound of mass–radius space and has a scaled semimajor axis, a/R*, between 9.6 and 12.1. These lie in the transition between systems that tend to be in orbits that are well aligned with their host-star’s spin and those that show a higher dispersion.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5790–5799
Number of pages10
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume485
Issue number4
Early online date14 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Geneva University for their continuous support to our planet search programs. This work has been in particular carried out in the frame of the National Centre for Competence in Research ‘PlanetS’ supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). WASP-South is hosted by the South African Astronomical Observatory and we are grateful for their ongoing support and assistance. Funding for WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) comes from consortium universities and from the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council. TRAPPIST is funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique, FNRS) under the grant FRFC 2.5.594.09.F, with the participation of the Swiss National Science Fundation (SNF). MG is a F.R.S.-FNRS Senior Research Associate. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the FP/2007-2013 ERC Grant Agreement 336480, from the ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions financed by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, from the Balzan Foundation, and a grant from the Erasmus + International Credit Mobility programme (K Barkaoui). We thank our anonymous reviewer for their comments which helped improve the clarity of the paper.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Keywords

  • astro-ph.EP
  • planets and satellites: detection
  • – planets and satellites: individual: WASP-177b
  • planets and satellites: individual: WASP-181b
  • planets and satellites: individual: WASP-183b

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