Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Katherine Laliotis
Jennifer A. Burt
Eric E. Mamajek
Zhexing Li
Volker Perdelwitz
Jinglin Zhao
R. Paul Butler
Bradford Holden
Lee Rosenthal
B. J. Fulton
Fabo Feng
Stephen R. Kane
Jeremy Bailey
Brad Carter
Jeffrey D. Crane
Elise Furlan
Crystal L. Gnilka
Steve B. Howell
Gregory Laughlin
Stephen A. Shectman
Abstract： Directly imaging temperate rocky planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars with a 6-m-class IR/O/UV space telescope, recently dubbed the Habitable Worlds Observatory, is a high priority goal of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. To prepare for future direct imaging surveys, the list of potential targets should be thoroughly vetted to maximize efficiency and scientific yield. We present an analysis of archival radial velocity data for southern stars from the NASA/NSF Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Working Group's list of high priority target stars for future direct imaging missions (drawn from the HabEx, LUVOIR, and Starshade studies). For each star, we constrain the region of companion mass and period parameter space we are already sensitive to based on the observational baseline, sampling, and precision of the archival RV data. Additionally, for some of the targets we report new estimates of magnetic activity cycle periods, rotation periods, improved orbital parameters for previously known exoplanets, and new candidate planet signals that require further vetting or observations to confirm. Our results show that for many of these stars we are not yet sensitive to even Saturn-mass planets in the habitable zone, let alone smaller planets, highlighting the need for future EPRV vetting efforts before the launch of a direct imaging mission. We present evidence that the candidate temperate super-Earth exoplanet HD 85512 b is most likely due to the star's rotation, and report an RV acceleration for delta Pav which supports the existence of a distant giant planet previously inferred from astrometry.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Fabo Feng
R. Paul Butler
Hugh R. A. Jones
Mark W. Phillips
Steven S. Vogt
Rebecca Oppenheimer
Bradford Holden
Jennifer Burt
Alan P. Boss
Abstract： To fully constrain the orbits of low mass circumstellar companions, we conduct combined analyses of the radial velocity data as well as the Gaia and Hipparcos astrometric data for eight nearby systems. Our study shows that companion-induced position and proper motion differences between Gaia and Hipparcos are significant enough to constrain orbits of low mass companions to a precision comparable with previous combined analyses of direct imaging and radial velocity data. We find that our method is robust to whether we use Gaia DR2 or Gaia EDR3, as well as whether we use all of the data, or just proper motion differences. In particular, we fully characterize the orbits of HD 190360 b and HD 16160 C for the first time. With a mass of 1.8$\pm$0.2$m_{\rm Jup}$ and an effective temperature of 123-176 K and orbiting around a Sun-like star, HD 190360 b is the smallest Jupiter-like planet with well-constrained mass and orbit, belonging to a small sample of fully characterized Jupiter analogs. It is separated from its primary star by 0.25$''$ and thus may be suitable for direct imaging by the CGI instrument of the Roman Space Telescope.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Xian-Yu Wang
Malena Rice
Songhu Wang
Bonan Pu
Guðmundur Stefánsson
Suvrath Mahadevan
Brandon Radzom
Steven Giacalone
Zhen-Yu Wu
Thomas M. Esposito
Paul A. Dalba
Arin Avsar
Bradford Holden
Brian Skiff
Tom Polakis
Kevin Voeller
Sarah E. Logsdon
Jessica Klusmeyer
Heidi Schweiker
Dong-Hong Wu
Abstract： We present spectroscopic measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for WASP-148b, the only known hot Jupiter with a nearby warm-Jupiter companion, from the WIYN/NEID and Keck/HIRES instruments. This is one of the first scientific results reported from the newly commissioned NEID spectrograph, as well as the second obliquity constraint for a hot Jupiter system with a close-in companion, after WASP-47. WASP-148b is consistent with being in alignment with the sky-projected spin axis of the host star, with $\lambda=-8^{\circ}.2^{{+8^{\circ}.7}}_{-9^{\circ}.7}$. The low obliquity observed in the WASP-148 system is consistent with the orderly-alignment configuration of most compact multi-planet systems around cool stars with obliquity constraints, including our solar system, and may point to an early history for these well-organized systems in which migration and accretion occurred in isolation, with relatively little disturbance. By contrast, previous results have indicated that high-mass and hot stars appear to more commonly host a wide range of misaligned planets: not only single hot Jupiters, but also compact systems with multiple super-Earths. We suggest that, to account for the high rate of spin-orbit misalignments in both compact multi-planet and isolated-hot-Jupiter systems orbiting high-mass and hot stars, spin-orbit misalignments may be caused by distant giant planet perturbers, which are most common around these stellar types.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Songhu Wang
Joshua N. Winn
Brett C. Addison
Fei Dai
Malena Rice
Bradford Holden
Jennifer A. Burt
Xian-Yu Wang
R. Paul Butler
Steven S. Vogt
Gregory Laughlin
Abstract： Measuring the obliquity distribution of stars hosting warm Jupiters may help us to understand the formation of close-orbiting gas giants. Few such measurements have been performed due to practical difficulties in scheduling observations of the relatively infrequent and long-duration transits of warm Jupiters. Here, we report a measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for K2-232b, a warm Jupiter (M_P=0.39 M_Jup) on an 11.17-day orbit with an eccentricity of 0.26. The data were obtained with the Automated Planet Finder during two separate transits. The planet's orbit appears to be well-aligned with the spin axis of the host star, with a projected spin-orbit angle of lambda = -11.1+/-6.6 deg. Combined with the other available data, we find that high obliquities are almost exclusively associated with planets that either have an orbital separation greater than 10 stellar radii or orbit stars with effective temperatures hotter than 6,000K. This pattern suggests that the obliquities of the closest-orbiting giant planets around cooler stars have been damped by tidal effects.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
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