HATS-4b: a dense hot-Jupiter transiting a super metal-rich G star

We report the discovery by the HATSouth survey of HATS-4b, an extrasolar planet transiting a V = 13.46 mag G star. HATS-4b has a period of P ≈ 2.5167 days, mass of Mp ≈ 1.32 M Jup, radius of Rp ≈ 1.02 R Jup, and density of ρ p = 1.55 ± 0.16 g cm-3 ≈1.24 ρJup. The host star has a mass of 1.00 M ☉, a radius of 0.92 R ☉, and a very high metallicity [Fe/H]=0.43 ± 0.08. HATS-4b is among the densest known planets with masses between 1 and 2 M J and is thus likely to have a significant content of heavy elements of the order of 75 M ⊕. In this paper we present the data reduction, radial velocity measurements, and stellar classification techniques adopted by the HATSouth survey for the CORALIE spectrograph. We also detail a technique for simultaneously estimating vsin i and macroturbulence using high resolution spectra.