HAT-P-16b: A 4 M _J Planet Transiting a Bright Star on an Eccentric Orbit

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Buchhave, L. A., Bakos, G. Ã., Hartman, J. D., Torres, G., Kovács, A., Latham, D. W., Noyes, R. W., Esquerdo, G. A., Everett, M., Howard, A. W., Marcy, G. W., Fischer, D. A., Johnson, J. A., Andersen, J., Fűrész, G., Perumpilly, G., Sasselov, D. D., Stefanik, R. P., Béky, B., Lázár, J., Papp, I., Sári, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2010
• Subjects: planetary systems; stars: individual (HAT-P-16; GSC 2792-01700); techniques: photometric; techniques: spectroscopic; Norway; Observatorio; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/720/2/1118

We report the discovery of HAT-P-16b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the V = 10.8 mag F8 dwarf GSC 2792-01700, with a period P = 2.775960 ± 0.000003 days, transit epoch T_c = 2455027.59293 ± 0.00031 (BJD^(10)), and transit duration 0.1276 ± 0.0013 days. The host star has a mass of 1.22 Â...