KELT-11b: A Highly Inflated Sub-Saturn Exoplanet Transiting the v = 8 Subgiant HD 93396

Joshua Pepper; Joseph E. Rodriguez; Karen A. Collins; John Asher Johnson; Benjamin J. Fulton; Andrew W. Howard; Thomas G. Beatty; Keivan G. Stassun; Howard Isaacson; Knicole D. Colón; Michael B. Lund; Rudolf B. Kuhn; Robert J. Siverd; B. Scott Gaudi; T. G. Tan; Ivan Curtis; Christopher Stockdale; Dimitri Mawet; Michael Bottom; David James; George Zhou; Daniel Bayliss; Phillip Cargile; Allyson Bieryla; Kaloyan Penev; David W. Latham; Jonathan Labadie-Bartz; John Kielkopf; Jason D. Eastman; Thomas E. Oberst; Eric L.N. Jensen; Peter Nelson; David H. Sliski; Robert A. Wittenmyer; Nate McCrady; Jason T. Wright; Howard M. Relles; Daniel J. Stevens; Michael D. Joner; Eric Hintz

doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa6572

KELT-11b: A Highly Inflated Sub-Saturn Exoplanet Transiting the v = 8 Subgiant HD 93396

Joshua Pepper
, Joseph E. Rodriguez
, Karen A. Collins
, John Asher Johnson
, Benjamin J. Fulton
, Andrew W. Howard
, Thomas G. Beatty
, Keivan G. Stassun
, Howard Isaacson
, Knicole D. Colón
, Michael B. Lund
, Rudolf B. Kuhn
, Robert J. Siverd
, B. Scott Gaudi
, T. G. Tan
, Ivan Curtis
, Christopher Stockdale
, Dimitri Mawet
, Michael Bottom
, David James

George Zhou, Daniel Bayliss, Phillip Cargile, Allyson Bieryla, Kaloyan Penev, David W. Latham, Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, John Kielkopf, Jason D. Eastman, Thomas E. Oberst, Eric L.N. Jensen, Peter Nelson, David H. Sliski, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Nate McCrady, Jason T. Wright, Howard M. Relles, Daniel J. Stevens, Michael D. Joner, Eric Hintz

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We report the discovery of a transiting exoplanet, KELT-11b, orbiting the bright (V = 8.0) subgiant HD 93396. A global analysis of the system shows that the host star is an evolved subgiant star with T_eff = 5370 ± 51K M&z.ast; = 1.438_-0.052 ^+0.061 &_. R∗ =2.72 _-0.21 ^+0.17 R_. log g∗ = 3.727 _-0.046 ^+0.040 and [fe/H] = 0.180 ± 0.075. The planet is a low-mass gas giant in a P = 4.736529 ±0.00006 day orbit, with M _P = 0.195 ±0.018 M_J R_P = 1.37 _0.12 ^0.15R_Jp_P = 0.093 _-0.024 ^+0.028g cm^-3, surface gravity log G_P 2.407_-0.086 ^+0.080, and equilibrium temperature T_eq = _-46 ⁺⁵¹K. KELT-11 is the brightest known transiting exoplanet host in the southern hemisphere by more than a magnitude and is the sixth brightest transit host to date. The planet is one of the most inflated planets known, with an exceptionally large atmospheric scale height (2763 km), and an associated size of the expected atmospheric transmission signal of 5.6%. These attributes make the KELT-11 system a valuable target for follow-up and atmospheric characterization, and it promises to become one of the benchmark systems for the study of inflated exoplanets.

Original language	English
Article number	215
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	153
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa6572
State	Published - May 2017

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1753582, 1516242
1056524

Keywords

planetary systems
planets and satellites: detection
stars: individual (KELT-11)
techniques: photometric
techniques: radial velocities

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Pepper, J., Rodriguez, J. E., Collins, K. A., Johnson, J. A., Fulton, B. J., Howard, A. W., Beatty, T. G., Stassun, K. G., Isaacson, H., Colón, K. D., Lund, M. B., Kuhn, R. B., Siverd, R. J., Gaudi, B. S., Tan, T. G., Curtis, I., Stockdale, C., Mawet, D., Bottom, M., ... Hintz, E. (2017). KELT-11b: A Highly Inflated Sub-Saturn Exoplanet Transiting the v = 8 Subgiant HD 93396. Astronomical Journal, 153(5), Article 215. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa6572

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