The Astronomical Journal, 144:139 (18pp), 2012 November doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/139 C 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. HAT-P-39b–HAT-P-41b: THREE HIGHLY INFLATED TRANSITING HOT JUPITERS∗ J. D. Hartman1,G.A.´ Bakos1,15,B.Beky´ 2, G. Torres2, D. W. Latham2,Z.Csubry1, K. Penev1, A. Shporer3,4, B. J. Fulton3, L. A. Buchhave5,6,J.A.Johnson7, A. W. Howard8, G. W. Marcy8,D.A.Fischer9,G.Kovacs´ 10,11, R. W. Noyes2, G. A. Esquerdo2, M. Everett2, T. Szklenar´ 2,S.N.Quinn2,12, A. Bieryla2,R.P.Knox13,P.Hinz13, D. D. Sasselov2,G.Fur˝ esz´ 2, R. P. Stefanik2,J.Laz´ ar´ 14, I. Papp14,andP.Sari´ 14 1 Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;
[email protected] 2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA 3 LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 4 Department of Physics, Broida Hall, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA 5 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark 6 Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark 7 Department of Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, MC 249-17, Pasadena, CA, USA 8 Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 9 Astronomy Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 10 Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary 11 Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA 12 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA 13 Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA 14 Hungarian Astronomical Association, Budapest, Hungary Received 2012 July 13; accepted 2012 August 30; published 2012 October 9 ABSTRACT We report the discovery of three new transiting extrasolar planets orbiting moderately bright (V = 11.1, 11.7, and 12.4) F stars.