Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates III Accurate Radiu.pdf

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 7 0 1 3 5 6 v 1 1 1 J a n 2 0 0 7 Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates III: Accurate Radius and Period for OGLE-TR-111-b 1 Dante Minniti1, Jose? Miguel Ferna?ndez1,6, Rodrigo F. D??az3, Andrzej Udalski4, Grzegorz Pietrzynski2,4, Wolfgang Gieren2, Patricio Rojo5, Mar??a Teresa Ru??z5, Manuela Zoccali1 ABSTRACT We present accurate V -band photometry for a planetary transit of OGLE-TR- 111 acquired with VIMOS at the ESO Very Large Telescope. The measurement of this transit allows to refine the planetary radius, obtaining Rp = 1.01±0.06 RJ . Given the mass of Mp = 0.53 MJ previously measured from radial velocities, we confirm that the density is ρp = 0.6±0.2 g/cm 3. We also revise the ephemeris for OGLE-TR-111-b, obtaining an accurate orbital period P = 4.014484±0.000014 days, and predicting that the next observable transits would occur around De- cember 2006, and after that only in mid-2008. Even though this period is different from previously published values, we cannot yet rule out a constant period. Subject headings: Stars: individual (OGLE-TR-111) – Extrasolar planets: for- mation 1Department of Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Cato?lica, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile E-mail: dante@astro.puc.cl, jfernand@astro.puc.cl, mzoccali@astro.puc.cl 2Department of Physics, Universidad de Concepcio?n, Casilla 160-C, Concepcio?n, Chile E-mail: pietrzyn@hubble.cfm.udec.cl, wgieren@astro-udec.cl 3Instituto de Astronom??a y F??sica del Espacio, CONICET- Universidad de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaE- mail: rodrigo@iafe.uba.ar 4Warsaw University Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Waszawa, PolandE-mail: udal- ski@astrouw.edu.pl 5Department of Astronomy, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile E-mail: mtruiz@das.uchile.cl 6Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, USA E-mail: jfernand@cfa.harvard.edu 1Based on observations collected with the Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory (ESO Programme 0