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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 693, Issue 1, Pages 794-803Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/1/794
Keywords
planetary systems; stars: individual (HD 17156)
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- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) [2006234]
- NASA [NNG06GH69G, NNG04LG89G]
- NASA
- NSF
- State of Tennessee through its Centers of Excellence program
- NSF [AST-0702821]
- Kepler Mission under NASA Cooperative Agreement [NCC2-1390]
- Kepler Mission
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Photometry is presented of the 2007 December 25 transit of HD 17156b, which has the longest orbital period and highest orbital eccentricity of all the known transiting exoplanets. New measurements of the stellar radial velocity are also presented. All the data are combined and integrated with stellar-evolutionary modeling to derive refined system parameters. The planet's mass and radius are found to be 3.212(-0.082)(+0.069) M-Jup and 1.023(-0.055)(+0.070) R-Jup. The corresponding stellar properties are 1.263(-0.047)(+0.035) M-circle dot and 1.446(-0.069)(+0.099) R-circle dot. The planet is smaller by 1 sigma than a theoretical solar-composition gas giant with the same mass and equilibrium temperature, a possible indication of heavy-element enrichment. The midtransit time is measured to within 1 minute and shows no deviation from a linear ephemeris (and therefore no evidence for orbital perturbations from other planets). We provide ephemerides for future transits and superior conjunctions. There is an 18% chance that the orbital plane is oriented close enough to edge-on for secondary eclipses to occur at superior conjunction. Observations of secondary eclipses would reveal the thermal emission spectrum of a planet that experiences unusually large tidal heating and insolation variations.
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