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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 404, Issue 1, Pages L114-L118Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00847.x
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methods: data analysis; stars: individual (WASP-19); planetary systems; techniques: photometric
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- STFC [ST/F002270/1, PP/F000081/1, PP/F000073/1, ST/G002266/1, ST/I00016X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002270/1, ST/G002266/1, ST/I00016X/1, PP/F000073/1, PP/F000081/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present an occultation of the newly discovered hot Jupiter system WASP-19, observed with the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager instrument on the VLT, in order to measure thermal emission from the planet's dayside at similar to 2 mu m. The light curve was analysed using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to find the eclipse depth and the central transit time. The transit depth was found to be 0.366 +/- 0.072 per cent, corresponding to a brightness temperature of 2540 +/- 180 K. This is significantly higher than the calculated (zero-albedo) equilibrium temperature and indicates that the planet shows poor redistribution of heat to the night side, consistent with models of highly irradiated planets. Further observations are needed to confirm the existence of a temperature inversion and possibly molecular emission lines. The central eclipse time was found to be consistent with a circular orbit.
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