Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Melissa J. Hobson
Andrés Jordán
E. M. Bryant
R. Brahm
D. Bayliss
J. D. Hartman
G. Á. Bakos
Th. Henning
Jose Manuel Almenara
Khalid Barkaoui
Zouhair Benkhaldoun
Xavier Bonfils
François Bouchy
David Charbonneau
Marion Cointepas
Karen A. Collins
Jason D. Eastman
Mourad Ghachoui
Michaël Gillon
Robert F. Goeke
Abstract： We present the discovery of TOI-3235 b, a short-period Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf with a stellar mass close to the critical mass at which stars transition from partially to fully convective. TOI-3235 b was first identified as a candidate from TESS photometry, and confirmed with radial velocities from ESPRESSO, and ground-based photometry from HATSouth, MEarth-South, TRAPPIST-South, LCOGT, and ExTrA. We find that the planet has a mass of $\mathrm{0.665\pm0.025\,M_J}$ and a radius of $\mathrm{1.017\pm0.044\,R_J}$. It orbits close to its host star, with an orbital period of $\mathrm{2.5926\,d}$, but has an equilibrium temperature of $\mathrm{\approx 604 \, K}$, well below the expected threshold for radius inflation of hot Jupiters. The host star has a mass of $\mathrm{0.3939\pm0.0030\,M_\odot}$, a radius of $\mathrm{0.3697\pm0.0018\,R_\odot}$, an effective temperature of $\mathrm{3389 \, K}$, and a J-band magnitude of $\mathrm{11.706\pm0.025}$. Current planet formation models do not predict the existence of gas giants such as TOI-3235 b around such low-mass stars. With a high transmission spectroscopy metric, TOI-3235 b is one of the best-suited giants orbiting M-dwarfs for atmospheric characterization.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Joseph E. Rodriguez
Samuel N. Quinn
Andrew Vanderburg
George Zhou
Jason D. Eastman
Erica Thygesen
Bryson Cale
David R. Ciardi
Phillip A. Reed
Ryan J. Oelkers
Karen A. Collins
Allyson Bieryla
David W. Latham
B. Scott Gaudi
Coel Hellier
Kirill Sokolovsky
Jack Schulte
Gregor Srdoc
John Kielkopf
Ferran Grau Horta
Abstract： We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting
giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) --
TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TOI-2025 (TIC 394050135), TOI-2145 (TIC 88992642),
TOI-2152 (TIC 395393265), TOI-2154 (TIC 428787891), & TOI-2497 (TIC 97568467).
All six planets orbit bright host stars (8.9
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Samuel W. Yee
Joshua N. Winn
Joel D. Hartman
Luke G. Bouma
George Zhou
Samuel N. Quinn
David W. Latham
Allyson Bieryla
Joseph E. Rodriguez
Karen A. Collins
Owen Alfaro
Khalid Barkaoui
Corey Beard
Alexander A. Belinski
Zouhair Benkhaldoun
Paul Benni
Krzysztof Bernacki
Andrew W. Boyle
R. Paul Butler
Douglas A. Caldwell
Abstract： NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters suitable for population studies. Assembling such a sample requires confirming hundreds of planet candidates with additional follow-up observations. Here, we present twenty hot Jupiters that were detected using TESS data and confirmed to be planets through photometric, spectroscopic, and imaging observations coordinated by the TESS Follow-up Observing Program (TFOP). These twenty planets have orbital periods shorter than 7 days and orbit relatively bright FGK stars ($10.9 < G < 13.0$). Most of the planets are comparable in mass to Jupiter, although there are four planets with masses less than that of Saturn. TOI-3976 b, the longest period planet in our sample ($P = 6.6$ days), may be on a moderately eccentric orbit ($e = 0.18\pm0.06$), while observations of the other targets are consistent with them being on circular orbits. We measured the projected stellar obliquity of TOI-1937A b, a hot Jupiter on a 22.4 hour orbit with the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, finding the planet's orbit to be well-aligned with the stellar spin axis ($|\lambda| = 4.0\pm3.5^\circ$). We also investigated the possibility that TOI-1937 is a member of the NGC 2516 open cluster, but ultimately found the evidence for cluster membership to be ambiguous. These objects are part of a larger effort to build a complete sample of hot Jupiters to be used for future demographic and detailed characterization work.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Jiayin Dong
Chelsea X. Huang
George Zhou
Rebekah I. Dawson
Gudmundur K. Stefánsson
Chad F. Bender
Cullen H. Blake
Eric B. Ford
Samuel Halverson
Shubham Kanodia
Suvrath Mahadevan
Michael W. McElwain
Joe P. Ninan
Paul Robertson
Arpita Roy
Christian Schwab
Daniel J. Stevens
Ryan C. Terrien
Andrew Vanderburg
Adam L. Kraus
Abstract： Close-in gas giants present a surprising range of stellar obliquity, the angle between a planet's orbital axis and its host star's spin axis. It is unclear whether the obliquities reflect the planets' dynamical history (e.g., aligned for in situ formation or disk migration versus misaligned for high-eccentricity tidal migration) or whether other mechanisms (e.g., primordial misalignment or planet-star interactions) are more important in sculpting the obliquity distribution. Here we present the stellar obliquity measurement of TOI-1268 (TIC-142394656, $V_{\rm mag} {\sim} 10.9$), a young K-type dwarf hosting an 8.2-day period, Saturn-sized planet. TOI-1268's lithium abundance and rotation period suggest the system age between the ages of Pleiades cluster (${\sim}120$ Myr) and Praesepe cluster (${\sim}670$ Myr). Using the newly commissioned NEID spectrograph, we constrain the stellar obliquity of TOI-1268 via the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect from both radial velocity (RV) and Doppler Tomography (DT) signals. The 3$\sigma$ upper bounds of the projected stellar obliquity $|\lambda|$ from both models are below 60$^\circ$. The large host star separation ($a/R_\star {\sim} 17$), combined with the system's young age, makes it unlikely that the planet has realigned its host star. The stellar obliquity measurement of TOI-1268 probes the architecture of a young gas giant beyond the reach of tidal realignment ($a/R_\star {\gtrsim} 10$) and reveals an aligned or slightly misaligned system.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Jiayin Dong
Chelsea X. Huang
Rebekah I. Dawson
Daniel Foreman-Mackey
Karen A. Collins
Samuel N. Quinn
Jack J. Lissauer
Thomas G. Beatty
Billy Quarles
Lizhou Sha
Avi Shporer
Zhao Guo
Stephen R. Kane
Lyu Abe
Khalid Barkaoui
Zouhair Benkhaldoun
Rafael A. Brahm
Francois Bouchy
Theron W. Carmichael
Kevin I. Collins
Abstract： Warm Jupiters -- defined here as planets larger than 6 Earth radii with orbital periods of 8--200 days -- are a key missing piece in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve. It is currently debated whether Warm Jupiters form in situ, undergo disk or high eccentricity tidal migration, or have a mixture of origin channels. These different classes of origin channels lead to different expectations for Warm Jupiters' properties, which are currently difficult to evaluate due to the small sample size. We take advantage of the \TESS survey and systematically search for Warm Jupiter candidates around main-sequence host stars brighter than the \TESS-band magnitude of 12 in the Full-Frame Images in Year 1 of the \TESS Prime Mission data. We introduce a catalog of 55 Warm Jupiter candidates, including 19 candidates that were not originally released as \TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) by the \TESS team. We fit their \TESS light curves, characterize their eccentricities and transit-timing variations (TTVs), and prioritize a list for ground-based follow-up and \TESS Extended Mission observations. Using hierarchical Bayesian modeling, we find the preliminary eccentricity distributions of our Warm-Jupiter-candidate catalog using a Beta distribution, a Rayleigh distribution, and a two-component Gaussian distribution as the functional forms of the eccentricity distribution. Additional follow-up observations will be required to clean the sample of false positives for a full statistical study, derive the orbital solutions to break the eccentricity degeneracy, and provide mass measurements.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Tianjun Gan
Abderahmane Soubkiou
Sharon X. Wang
Zouhair Benkhaldoun
Shude Mao
Étienne Artigau
Pascal Fouqué
Steven Giacalone
Christopher A. Theissen
Christian Aganze
Karen A. Collins
Avi Shporer
Khalid Barkaoui
Mourad Ghachoui
Steve B. Howell
Claire Lamman
Olivier D. S. Demangeon
Artem Burdanov
Charles Cadieux
Jamila Chouqar
Abstract： We present the discovery of TOI-2136b, a sub-Neptune planet transiting every 7.85 days a nearby M4.5V-type star, identified through photometric measurements from the TESS mission. The host star is located $33$ pc away with a radius of $R_{\ast} = 0.34\pm0.02\ R_{\odot}$, a mass of $0.34\pm0.02\ M_{\odot}$ and an effective temperature of $\rm 3342\pm100\ K$. We estimate its stellar rotation period to be $75\pm5$ days based on archival long-term photometry. We confirm and characterize the planet based on a series of ground-based multi-wavelength photometry, high-angular-resolution imaging observations, and precise radial velocities from CFHT/SPIRou. Our joint analysis reveals that the planet has a radius of $2.19\pm0.17\ R_{\oplus}$, and a mass measurement of $6.4\pm2.4M_{\oplus}$. The mass and radius of TOI2136b is consistent with a broad range of compositions, from water-ice to gas-dominated worlds. TOI-2136b falls close to the radius valley for low-mass stars predicted by the thermally driven atmospheric mass loss models, making it an interesting target for future studies of its interior structure and atmospheric properties.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
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