KELT-17B: A HOT-JUPITER TRANSITING AN A-STAR IN A MISALIGNED ORBIT DETECTED WITH DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • ABSTRACT We present the discovery of a hotJupiter transiting the V=9.23 mag main-sequence A-star KELT-17 (BD+14 1881). KELT-17b is a m{J}}}$?> , m{J}}}$?> hot-Jupiter in a 3.08-day period orbit misaligned at 115.94.1 to the rotation axis of the star. The planet is confirmed via both the detection of the radial velocity orbit, and the Doppler tomographic detection of the shadow of the planet during two transits. The nature of the spinorbit misaligned transit geometry allows us to place a constraint on the level of differential rotation in the host star; we find that KELT-17 is consistent with both rigid-body rotation and solar differential rotation rates ( at significance). KELT-17 is only the fourth A-star with a confirmed transiting planet, and with a mass of , an effective temperature of 745449 K, and aprojected rotational velocity of m{s}}}^{-1};$?> it is among the most massive, hottest, and most rapidly rotating of known planet hosts.

published proceedings

  • ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

altmetric score

  • 15.33

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhou, G., Rodriguez, J. E., Collins, K. A., Beatty, T., Oberst, T., Heintz, T. M., ... Trueblood, P.

citation count

  • 63

complete list of authors

  • Zhou, George||Rodriguez, Joseph E||Collins, Karen A||Beatty, Thomas||Oberst, Thomas||Heintz, Tyler M||Stassun, Keivan G||Latham, David W||Kuhn, Rudolf B||Bieryla, Allyson||Lund, Michael B||Labadie-Bartz, Jonathan||Siverd, Robert J||Stevens, Daniel J||Gaudi, B Scott||Pepper, Joshua||Buchhave, Lars A||Eastman, Jason||Colon, Knicole||Cargile, Phillip||James, David||Gregorio, Joao||Reed, Phillip A||Jensen, Eric LN||Cohen, David H||McLeod, Kim K||Tan, TG||Zambelli, Roberto||Bayliss, Daniel||Bento, Joao||Esquerdo, Gilbert A||Berlind, Perry||Calkins, Michael L||Blancato, Kirsten||Manner, Mark||Samulski, Camile||Stockdale, Christopher||Nelson, Peter||Stephens, Denise||Curtis, Ivan||Kielkopf, John||Fulton, Benjamin J||DePoy, DL||Marshall, Jennifer L||Pogge, Richard||Gould, Andy||Trueblood, Mark||Trueblood, Pat

publication date

  • November 2016