A Transiting Planet of a Sun-like Star
Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0605414
From: Peter R. McCullough [view email] Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:16:14 GMT (359kb)
A Transiting Planet of a Sun-like Star
Authors:
P. R. McCullough,
J. E. Stys,
Jeff A. Valenti,
C. M. Johns-Krull,
K. A. Janes,
J. N. Heasley,
B. A. Bye,
C. Dodd,
S. W. Fleming,
A. Pinnick,
R. Bissinger,
B. L. Gary,
P. J. Howell,
T. Vanmunster
Comments: 31 pages, 9 figures, accepted for part 1 of ApJ
A planet transits an 11th magnitude, G1V star in the constellation Corona
Borealis. We designate the planet XO-1b, and the star, XO-1, also known as GSC
02041-01657. XO-1 lacks a trigonometric distance; we estimate it to be 200+-20
pc. Of the ten stars currently known to host extrasolar transiting planets, the
star XO-1 is the most similar to the Sun in its physical characteristics: its
radius is 1.0+-0.08 R_Sun, its mass is 1.0+-0.03 M_Sun, V sini < 3 km/s, and
its metallicity [Fe/H] is 0.015+-0.04. The orbital period of the planet XO-1b
is 3.941534+-0.000027 days, one of the longer ones known. The planetary mass is
0.90+-0.07 M_Jupiter, which is marginally larger than that of other transiting
planets with periods between 3 and 4 days. Both the planetary radius and the
inclination are functions of the spectroscopically determined stellar radius.
If the stellar radius is 1.0+-0.08 R_Sun, then the planetary radius is
1.30+-0.11 R_Jupiter and the inclination of the orbit is 87.7+-1.2 degrees. We
have demonstrated a productive international collaboration between professional
and amateur astronomers that was important to distinguishing this planet from
many other similar candidates.
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