Hat-P-25b: A Hot-Jupiter Transiting a Moderately Faint G Star

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Quinn, S. N., Bakos, G. Ã., Hartmann, J., Torres, G., Kovács, G., Latham, D. W., Noyes, R. W., Fischer, D. A., Johnson, J. A., Marcy, G. W., Howard, A. W., Szentgyorgyi, A., Fűrész, G., Buchhave, L. A., Béky, B., Sasselov, D. D., Stefanik, R. P., Perumpilly, G., Everett, M., Lázár, J., Papp, I., Sári, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2012
• Subjects: planetary systems; stars: individual (HAT-P-25; GSC 1788-01237); techniques: photometric; techniques: spectroscopic; Gemini; Jupiter; Norway; Observatorio; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/80

We report the discovery of HAT-P-25b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the V = 13.19 G5 dwarf star GSC 1788-01237, with a period P = 3.652836 ± 0.000019 days, transit epoch T_c = 2455176.85173 ± 0.00047 (BJD—barycentric Julian dates throughout the paper are calculated from Coordinated Universal Time, UTC), and transit duration 0.1174 ± 0.0017 days. The host star has a mass of 1.01 ± 0.03 M_☉, radius of 0.96^(+0.05)_(– 0.04) R_☉, effective temperature 5500 ± 80 K, and metallicity [Fe/H] = +0.31 ± 0.08. The planetary companion has a mass of 0.567 ± 0.022 M_J and radius of 1.190^(+0.081)_(–0.056) R_J yielding a mean density of 0.42 ± 0.07 g cm^(–3). © 2012 American Astronomical Society. Received 2010 August 20; accepted 2011 November 4; published 2011 December 29. Based in part on observations obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated by the University of California and the California Institute of Technology. Keck time has been granted by NOAO (A201Hr), NASA (N018Hr and N167Hr), and the NASA Gemini-Keck time-exchange program (G329Hr). Based in part on observations made with the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. HATNet operations have been funded by NASA grants NNG04GN74G, NNX08AF23G, and SAO IR&D grants. Work of G.Ã.B. and J. Johnson were supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Program (AST-0702843 and AST-0702821, respectively). G.T. acknowledges partial support from NASA grant NNX09AF59G. We acknowledge partial support also from the Kepler Mission under NASA Cooperative Agreement NCC2-1390 (PI: D.W. Latham). G.K. thanks the Hungarian Scientific Research Foundation (OTKA) for support through grant K-81373. This research has made use of Keck telescope time granted through NOAO (A201Hr), NASA (N018Hr and N167Hr), and the NASA Gemini-Keck ...