A New Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of the Transiting Planet Systems TrES-3 and TrES-4
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Sozzetti, Alessandro
Winn, Joshua N.
Laird, John B.
Fernandez, Jose
O'Donovan, Francis T.
Mandushev, Georgi
Dunham, Edward
Everett, Mark E.
Esquerdo, Gilbert A.
Rabus, Markus
Belmonte, Juan A.
Deeg, Hans J.
Brown, Timothy N.
Hidas, Marton G.
Baliber, Nairn
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Sozzetti, Alessandro, Guillermo Torres, David Charbonneau, Joshua N. Winn, Sylvain G. Korzennik, Matthew J. Holman, David W. Latham, et al. 2009. A new spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the transiting planet systems TrES-3 and TrES-4. Astrophysical Journal 691(2): 1145-1158.Abstract
We report new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the parent stars of the recently discovered transiting planets TrES-3 and TrES-4. A detailed abundance analysis based on high-resolution spectra yields [Fe/H] = –0.19 ± 0.08, T eff = 5650 ± 75 K, and log g = 4.4 ± 0.1 for TrES-3, and [Fe/H] = +0.14 ± 0.09, T eff = 6200 ± 75 K, and log g = 4.0 ± 0.1 for TrES-4. The accuracy of the effective temperatures is supported by a number of independent consistency checks. The spectroscopic orbital solution for TrES-3 is improved with our new radial velocity measurements of that system, as are the light-curve parameters for both systems based on newly acquired photometry for TrES-3 and a reanalysis of existing photometry for TrES-4. We have redetermined the stellar parameters taking advantage of the strong constraint provided by the light curves in the form of the normalized separation a/R sstarf (related to the stellar density) in conjunction with our new temperatures and metallicities. The masses and radii we derive are M sstarf = 0.928+0.028 –0.048 M sun, R sstarf = 0.829+0.015 –0.022 R sun, and M sstarf = 1.404+0.066 –0.134 M sun, R sstarf = 1.846+0.096 –0.087 R sun for TrES-3 and TrES-4, respectively. With these revised stellar parameters, we obtain improved values for the planetary masses and radii. We find Mp = 1.910+0.075 –0.080 M Jup, Rp = 1.336+0.031 –0.036 R Jup for TrES-3, and Mp = 0.925 ± 0.082 M Jup, Rp = 1.783+0.093 –0.086 R Jup for TrES-4. We confirm TrES-4 as the planet with the largest radius among the currently known transiting hot Jupiters.Other Sources
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