Bibcode
Hay, K. L.; Collier-Cameron, A.; Doyle, A. P.; Hébrard, G.; Skillen, I.; Anderson, D. R.; Barros, S. C. C.; Brown, D. J. A.; Bouchy, F.; Busuttil, R.; Delorme, P.; Delrez, L.; Demangeon, O.; Díaz, R. F.; Gillon, M.; Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y.; Gonzàlez, E.; Hellier, C.; Holmes, S.; Jarvis, J. F.; Jehin, E.; Joshi, Y. C.; Kolb, U.; Lendl, M.; Maxted, P. F. L.; McCormac, J.; Miller, G. R. M.; Mortier, A.; Pallé, E.; Pollacco, D.; Prieto-Arranz, J.; Queloz, D.; Ségransan, D.; Simpson, E. K.; Smalley, B.; Southworth, J.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Turner, O. D.; Udry, S.; Vanhuysse, M.; West, R. G.; Wilson, P. A.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 463, Issue 3, p.3276-3289
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2016
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Description
We present the discovery of three new transiting giant planets, first
detected with the WASP telescopes, and establish their planetary nature
with follow up spectroscopy and ground-based photometric light curves.
WASP-92 is an F7 star, with a moderately inflated planet orbiting with a
period of 2.17 d, which has Rp = 1.461 ±
0.077RJ and Mp = 0.805 ±
0.068MJ. WASP-93b orbits its F4 host star every 2.73 d and
has Rp = 1.597 ± 0.077RJ and Mp
= 1.47 ± 0.029MJ. WASP-118b also has a hot host star
(F6) and is moderately inflated, where Rp = 1.440 ±
0.036RJ and Mp = 0.514 ± 0.020MJ
and the planet has an orbital period of 4.05 d. They are bright targets
(V = 13.18, 10.97 and 11.07, respectively) ideal for further
characterization work, particularly WASP-118b, which is being observed
by K2 as part of campaign 8. The WASP-93 system has sufficient angular
momentum to be tidally migrating outwards if the system is near
spin-orbit alignment, which is divergent from the tidal behaviour of the
majority of hot Jupiters discovered.