by Anthony Ayiomamitis
The light curve for exoplanet WASP-14b in Bootes depicted above is one of the latest (and most massive) transitting exoplanets, having being announced in June/2008, and represents the fourteenth discovery by the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) team. WASP-14b is characterized with a whopping mass 7.725 times that of Jupiter while its radius is equivalent to 1.259 Jupiter radii, thus making this exoplanet one of the densest discoveries to-date. WASP-14b requires 183.6 minutes to transit its parent star at a depth of 10.2 mmag or 1.02%. The parent star, GSC 1482:882, is an F5V star estimated to have a mass of 1.319 solar masses, a radius equivalent to 1.297 solar radii, a temperature of 6,475° K and to lie at a distance of 570 light-years away with a visual magnitude of 9.75. Further details regarding WASP-14 and WASP-14b are available in the paper published by the discovery team led by Y.C. Joshi et al here.
Technical Details:
Date: May 01-02, 2010 @ 23:00:00 - 04:30:58 UT+3
Location: Athens, Greece (38.2997° N, 23.7430° E)
Equipment: AP 160 f/7.5 Starfire EDF, AP 1200GTO GEM, SBIG ST-10XME, SBIG CFW-10, SBIG Lum filter
Integrations: Lum: 190 x 90 sec, Dark: 15 x 90 sec, Flat: ~17,800 ADU, Binning: 1x1
Temperatures: Ambient: +19.0 ° C, CCD Chip: -20.0° C
The C- and K-stars used for the purposes of the differential photometry measurements depicted below were GSC 1482:261 (mag 9.78) and GSC 1482:83 (mag 10.39) respectively.
Further details here.