Qatar Exoplanet Survey: Qatar-7b—A Very Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-rich F-Star

Alsubai, Khalid; Tsvetanov, Zlatan I.; Latham, David W.; Bieryla, Allyson; Pyrzas, Stylianos; Mislis, Dimitris; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Esamdin, Ali; Liu, Jinzhong; Ma, Lu; Bretton, Marc; Pallé, E.; Murgas, F.; Vilchez, Nicolas P. E.; Morton, Timothy D.; Parviainien, H.; Montañes-Rodriguez, P.; Narita, Norio; Fukui, Akihiko; Kusakabe, Nobuhiko; Tamura, Motohide
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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 157, Issue 2, article id. 74, 9 pp. (2019).

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2019
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21
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Descripción
We present the discovery of Qatar-7b—a very hot and inflated giant gas planet orbiting close to its parent star. The host star is a relatively massive main-sequence F-star with mass and radius {M}\star =1.41+/- 0.03 {M}ȯ and {R}\star =1.56+/- 0.02 {R}ȯ , respectively, at a distance d = 726 ± 26 pc, and an estimated age ∼1 Gyr. With its orbital period of P = 2.032 days, the planet is located less than five stellar radii from its host star and is heated to a high temperature T eq ≈ 2100 K. From a global solution to the available photometric and radial velocity observations, we calculate the mass and radius of the planet to be {M}{{P}} = 1.88 ± 0.25 {M}{{J}} and {R}{{P}} = 1.70 ± 0.03 {R}{{J}}, respectively. The planet radius and equilibrium temperature put Qatar-7b in the top 6% of the hottest and largest known exoplanets. With its large radius and high temperature, Qatar-7b is a valuable addition to the short list of targets that offer the best opportunity for studying their atmospheres through transmission spectroscopy.
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