J/MNRAS/515/3212    Transiting planet HATS-18b               (Southworth+, 2022)

A search for transit timing variations in the HATS-18 planetary system. Southworth J., Barker A.J., Hinse T.C., Jongen Y., Dominik M., Jorgensen U.G., Longa-Pena P., Sajadian S., Snodgrass C., Tregloan-Reed J., Bach-moller N., Bonavita M., Bozza V., Burgdorf M.J., Figuera Jaimes R., Helling C., Hitchcock J.A., Hundertmark M., Khalouei E., Korhonen H., Mancini L., Peixinho N., Rahvar S., Rabus M., Skottfelt J., Spyratos P. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 515, 3212-3223 (2022)> =2022MNRAS.515.3212S 2022MNRAS.515.3212S (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Stars, double and multiple ; Exoplanets ; Photometry, infrared ; Optical ; Ultraviolet Keywords: planetary systems - stars: fundamental parameters - stars: individual: HATS-18 Abstract: HATS-18 b is a transiting planet with a large mass and a short orbital period, and is one of the best candidates for the detection of orbital decay induced by tidal effects. We present extensive photometry of HATS-18 from which we measure 27 times of mid-transit. Two further transit times were measured from data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and three more taken from the literature. The transit timings were fitted with linear and quadratic ephemerides and an upper limit on orbital decay was determined. This corresponds to a lower limit on the modified stellar tidal quality factor of Q*'>10(5.11±0.04). This is at the cusp of constraining the presence of enhanced tidal dissipation due to internal gravity waves. We also refine the measured physical properties of the HATS-18 system, place upper limits on the masses of third bodies, and compare the relative performance of TESS and the 1.54m Danish Telescope in measuring transit times for this system. Description: Twenty-nine light curves of transits of the extrasolar planetary system HATS-18 are presented and used to confirm the existence of transit timing variations in the system. They were obtained using the 1.54m Danish Telescope at ESO La Silla, Chile, and the 43cm Jongen Telescope at Deep Sky Chile. the 3.6m NTT at ESO La Silla, Chile, and the 40-inch telescope at Sutherland, South Africa. The filters used were Cousins I for the Danish telescopes and a Chroma UV/IR filter for the Jongen telescope. The errorbars for each transit have been scaled so the best-fitting model (obtained using the JKTEBOP code) has a reduced chi-squared value of 1.0. Objects: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RA (2000) DE Designation(s) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 35 49.78 -29 09 21.8 HATS-18 = TIC 14614418 = 2MASS J11354977-2909216 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file hats18da.dat 35 2101 Differential photometry of HATS-18 from the Danish telescope hats18jo.dat 29 750 Differential photometry of HATS-18 from the Jongen telescope -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/MNRAS/396/1023 : Transiting planetary system WASP-5 (Southworth+, 2009) J/MNRAS/399/287 : Transiting planetary system WASP-4 (Southworth+, 2009) J/ApJ/707/167 : Transiting planetary system WASP-18 (Southworth+, 2009) J/MNRAS/408/1680 : Transiting planetary system WASP-2 (Southworth+, 2010) J/A+A/527/A8 : Transiting planetary system WASP-7 (Southworth+, 2011) J/MNRAS/420/2580 : Four transits of HAT-P-13 (Southworth+, 2012) J/MNRAS/422/3099 : Transits of HAT-P-5 (Southworth+, 2012) J/MNRAS/426/1338 : Transiting planetary system WASP-17 (Southworth+, 2012) J/MNRAS/434/1300 : Planetary systems WASP-15, WASP-16 (Southworth+, 2013) J/MNRAS/444/776 : WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26 (Southworth+, 2014) J/MNRAS/447/711 : Transiting planetary system WASP-103 (Southworth+, 2015) J/MNRAS/454/3094 : Transiting planetary system WASP-57 (Southworth+, 2016) J/MNRAS/457/4205 : WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55 (Southworth+, 2016) J/AJ/153/191 : Transiting planetary system GJ 1132 (Southworth+, 2017) J/MNRAS/490/4230 : Transiting planet WASP-4b (Southworth+, 2019) Byte-by-byte Description of file: hats18da.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 14 F14.6 d BJD Barycentric Julian Date for the midpoint of observation (TDB) 16- 25 F10.7 mag mag Differential I-band magnitude 27- 35 F9.7 mag e_mag Measurement error of the differential magnitude -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: hats18jo.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 14 F14.6 d BJD Barycentric Julian Date for the midpoint of observation (TDB) 16- 22 F7.4 mag mag Differential UV/IR-band magnitude 24- 29 F6.4 mag e_mag Measurement error of the differential magnitude -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: John Southworth, taylorsouthworth(at)gmail.com
(End) John Southworth [Keele Univ., UK], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 23-Nov-2022
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