# MASCARA-4 b/bRing-1b - A retrograde hot Jupiter around the bright A3V star HD 85628

## TL;DR

This paper confirms and characterizes a retrograde hot Jupiter, MASCARA-4b/bRing-1b, orbiting a bright A3V star, using combined photometric and spectroscopic data, revealing its orbital and physical properties.

## Contribution

First confirmation of a retrograde hot Jupiter around a bright A3V star using combined transit, radial velocity, and Doppler shadow observations.

## Key findings

- Planet has a 2.824-day orbit with a radius of about 1.53 R_Jup.
- The transiting object is in a retrograde orbit with an angle of approximately 247.5°.
- Star HD 85628 has a previously unreported stellar companion.

## Abstract

In this paper, we aim to characterize a transiting planetary candidate in the southern skies found in the combined MASCARA and bRing data sets of HD 85628, an A3V star of V = 8.2 mag at a distance 172 pc, to confirm its planetary nature. The candidate was originally detected in data obtained jointly with the MASCARA and bRing instruments using a BLS search for transit events. Further photometry was taken by the 0.7 m CHAT, and radial velocity measurements with FIDEOS on the ESO 1.0 m Telescope. High resolution spectra during a transit were taken with CHIRON on the SMARTS 1.5 m telescope to target the Doppler shadow of the candidate. We confirm the existence of a hot Jupiter transiting the bright A3V star HD 85628, which we co-designate as MASCARA-4b and bRing-1b. It is in a 2.824 day orbit, with an estimated planet radius of $1.53 ^{0.07}_{0.04}$ $R_{\rm{Jup}}$ and an estimated planet mass of $3.1 \pm 0.9$ $M_{\rm{Jup}}$, putting it well within the planet mass regime.. The CHAT observations show a partial transit, reducing the probability that the transit was around a faint background star. The CHIRON observations show a clear Doppler shadow, implying that the transiting object is in a retrograde orbit with $|\lambda| = 247.5 \pm 1.6 $\textdegree. The planet orbits at at a distance of 0.047 $\pm$ 0.004 AU from the star and has a zero-albedo equilibrium temperature of 2100 $\pm$ 100 K. In addition, we find that HD 85628 has a previously unreported stellar companion star in the Gaia DR2 data demonstrating common proper motion and parallax at 4.3 arcsecond separation (projected separation $\sim$740 AU), and with absolute magnitude consistent with being a K/M dwarf.