Description
We present the discovery by the WASP-South transit survey of three new transiting hot Jupiters, WASP-161 b, WASP-163 b and WASP-170 b. Follow-up radial velocities obtained with the Euler/CORALIE spectrograph and high-precision transit light curves obtained with the TRAPPIST-North, TRAPPIST-South, SPECULOOS-South, NITES, and Euler telescopes have enabled us to determine the masses and radii for these transiting exoplanets. WASP-161 b completes an orbit around its V=11.1 F6V-type host star in 5.406 days, and has a mass and radius of 2.5+/-0.2M_Jup_ and 1.14+/-0.06R_Jup_ respectively. WASP-163 b has an orbital period of 1.609-days, a mass of 1.9+/-0.2M_Jup_, and a radius of 1.2+/-0.1R_Jup_. Its host star is a V=12.5 G8-type dwarf. WASP-170 b is on a 2.344-days orbit around a G1V-type star of magnitude V=12.8. It has a mass of 1.7+/-0.2M_Jup_ and a radius of 1.14+/-0.09R_Jup_. Given their irradiations (~10^9^erg/s/cm^2^) and masses, the three new planets' sizes are in good agreement with classical structure models of irradiated giant planets.
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