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TRAPPIST detection of the light from a bloated hot Jupiter at the edge of tidal disruption (poster)
Delrez, Laetitia; Gillon, Michaël; Lendl, Monika et al.
2014FNRS contact group Astronomie & Astrophysique
 

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Keywords :
Transiting exoplanets
Abstract :
[en] Abstract : We present here the discovery by the WASP-­South survey, in close collaboration with the Euler and TRAPPIST telescopes, of the transiting planet WASP-­121b as well as the measurement of its thermal emission at 0.9 microns. WASP-­121b is a very inflated (1.76 RJup) Jupiter-­mass (1.02 MJup) planet that transits every 1.27 days a bright F6V star. It is remarkable as its orbital radius is only ~10% larger than its Roche limit, suggesting that it might experience mass loss through Roche-­lobe overflow. Thanks to its large size and extreme irradiation (~7 10^9 erg s-1 cm-­2), it was predicted to display a thermal emission of ~0.1% of the stellar flux in the near-­infrared. Using the TRAPPIST robotic telescope, we could detect this thermal emission signal at ~5 sigma in the z'-­band. This measurement, a first for a ground-­based 60cm telescope, allows to place preliminary constraints on the atmospheric properties of this very special hot Jupiter.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Delrez, Laetitia ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Gillon, Michaël  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Lendl, Monika ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Jehin, Emmanuel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Magain, Pierre  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Language :
English
Title :
TRAPPIST detection of the light from a bloated hot Jupiter at the edge of tidal disruption (poster)
Publication date :
30 April 2014
Event name :
FNRS contact group Astronomie & Astrophysique
Event place :
Brussels, Belgium
Event date :
30 avril 2014
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