HAT-P31bc:A Transiting, Eccentric, Hot Jupiter and a Long-Period, Massive Third Body

• Published in: The Astronomical Journal
• Main Authors: Kipping, D. M., Hartman, J., Bakos, G. Ã., Torres, G., Latham, D. W., Bayliss, D., Kiss, L. L., Sato, B., Béky, B., Kovács, Géza, Quinn, S. N., Buchhave, L. A., Andersen, J., Marcy, G. W., Howard, A. W., Fischer, D. A., Johnson, J. A., Noyes, R. W., Sasselov, D. D., Stefanik, R. P., Lázár, J., Papp, I., Sári, P., Fűrész, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2011
• Subjects: planetary systems; stars: individual (HAT-P-31; GSC 2099-00908); techniques: photometric; techniques: spectroscopic; Norway; Jupiter; Observatorio; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/142/3/95

We report the discovery of HAT-P-31b, a transiting exoplanet orbiting the V = 11.660 dwarf star GSC 2099-00908. HAT-P-31b is the first planet discovered with the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope (HAT) without any follow-up photometry, demonstrating the feasibility of a new mode of operation for th...