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The Transit Light Curve Project. VII. The Not-So-Bloated Exoplanet HAT-P-1b (2007)

Abstract
We present photometry of the G0 star HAT-P-1 during six transits of its close-in giant planet, and we refine the estimates of the system parameters. Relative to Jupiter's properties, HAT-P-1b is 1.20 +/- 0.05 times larger and its surface gravity is 2.7 +/- 0.2 times weaker. Although it remains the case that HAT-P-1b is among the least dense of the known sample of transiting exoplanets, its properties are in accord with previously published models of strongly irradiated, coreless, solar-composition giant planets. The times of the transits have a typical accuracy of 1 min and do not depart significantly from a constant period.. Comment: To appear in AJ [19pg, 3 figures]. New co-author added. Minor revisions to match published version

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1908
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Astrophysics
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