HATS-1b: The First Transiting Planet Discovered by the HATSouth Survey

We report the discovery of HATS-1b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V=12.05 G dwarf star GSC 6652-00186, and the first planet discovered by HATSouth, a global network of autonomous wide-field telescopes. HATS-1b has a period P~3.4465 d, mass Mp~1.86MJ, and radius Rp~1.3...

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Main Authors Penev, K, Bakos, G Á, Bayliss, D, Jordán, A, Mohler, M, Zhou, G, Suc, V, Rabus, M, Hartman, J D, Mancini, L, Béky, B, Csubry, Z, Buchhave, L, Henning, T, Nikolov, N, Csák, B, Brahm, R, Espinoza, N, Conroy, P, Noyes, R W, Sasselov, D D, Schmidt, B, Wright, D J, Tinney, C G, Addison, B C, Lázár, J, Papp, I, Sári, P
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 07.06.2012
Subjects
Dwarf stars
Extrasolar planets
Light curve
Outerwear
Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Planet detection
Telescopes
Transit
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Summary:We report the discovery of HATS-1b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V=12.05 G dwarf star GSC 6652-00186, and the first planet discovered by HATSouth, a global network of autonomous wide-field telescopes. HATS-1b has a period P~3.4465 d, mass Mp~1.86MJ, and radius Rp~1.30RJ. The host star has a mass of 0.99Msun, and radius of 1.04Rsun. The discovery light curve of HATS-1b has near continuous coverage over several multi-day periods, demonstrating the power of using a global network of telescopes to discover transiting planets.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1206.1524