WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51: re-analysis using TESS and ground-based transit photometry

TL;DR

This study refines the physical parameters of exoplanetary systems WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51 using TESS and ground-based transit data, revealing transit timing variations and predicting atmospheric properties.

Contribution

It provides updated system parameters and analyzes transit timing variations, proposing possible causes and atmospheric predictions for the exoplanets.

Findings

WASP-35b and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b have consistent revised parameters with previous studies.

HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b exhibits significant transit timing variations not explained by simple models.

Transit timing variations could be due to apsidal precession or an additional perturbing body.

Abstract

High-precision transit observations provide excellent opportunities for characterizing the physical properties of exoplanetary systems. These physical properties supply many pieces of information for unvealing the internal structure, external atmosphere, and dynamical history of the planets. We present revised properties of transiting systems WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51 through analyzing newly available TESS photometry and ground-based observations obtained at 1m telescope of Yunnan Observatories as well as from the literature. The improved system parameters are consistent with the previous results. Furthermore, we find that HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b's transits show significant timing variation which cannot be explained by decaying orbit due to tidal dissipation and the R\o mer effect, while both apsidal precession and an additional perturbing body could reproduce this signal through our comprehensive dynamical simulations. Because both of them are valuable targets which are suitable for transmission spectroscopy, we make some predictions for atmospheric properties of WASP-35b and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b based on newly derived system parameters.