Preprint : Press Release : TrES : TrES-3 Details : TrES-3 Press

• Get the preprint accepted by Astrophysical Journal Letters.
• View the Press Release from the California Institute of Technology.

TrES-3 and the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey

The Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) is a network of telescopes, Sleuth, PSST and STARE, that is used to search the skies for gas giants orbiting other stars that occassionaly cross the disk of the stars. The TrES team have already discovered two transiting planets, TrES-1 and TrES-2.

Details of TrES-3, the Star

Position: 17h 52m 07.03s +37d 32m 46.1s (J2000)
V Magnitude: 12.4 magnitudes
Mass: 0.90 solar masses
Radius: 0.80 solas masses

Details of TrES-3, the Planet

Orbital Period: 1.30619 days
Semi-Major Axis: 0.0226 AU
Orbital Inclination: 82.15 degrees
Mass: 1.92 Jupiter masses
Radius: 1.30 Jupiter radii

TrES-3 Press and Links

• 2007 05 17 Wikipedia entry.
• 2007 05 16 Greg Laughlin, of UC Santa Cruz and transitsearch.org, blogs about TrES-3 in "A Year in a Day".
• 2007 05 15 Universe Today, "Newly Discovered Planet Orbits in Just 31 Hours".

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Francis T. O'Donovan, ftod (at) astro (dot) caltech (dot) edu