Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion
Journal article, 2023

We report the discovery and confirmation of the planetary system TOI-1288. This late G dwarf harbours two planets: TOI-1288 b and TOI-1288 c. We combine TESS space-borne and ground-based transit photometry with HARPS-N and HIRES high-precision Doppler measurements, which we use to constrain the masses of both planets in the system and the radius of planet b. TOI-1288 b has a period of 2.699835(-0.000003)(+0.000004) d, a radius of 5.24 +/- 0.09 R-circle plus, and a mass of 42 +/- 3 M-circle plus, making this planet a hot transiting super-Neptune situated right in the Neptunian desert. This desert refers to a paucity of Neptune-sized planets on short period orbits. Our 2.4-yr-long Doppler monitoring of TOI-1288 revealed the presence of a Saturn-mass planet on a moderately eccentric orbit (0.13(-0.09)(+0.07)) with a minimum mass of 84 +/- 7 M-circle plus and a period of 443(-13)(+11) d. The five sectors worth of TESS data do not cover our expected mid-transit time for TOI-1288 c, and we do not detect a transit for this planet in these sectors.

techniques: radial velocities

planets and satellites: detection

techniques: photometric

Author

E. Knudstrup

Aarhus University

Nordic Optical Telescope

D. Gandolfi

University of Turin

G. Nowak

University of La Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Carina Persson

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

E. Furlan

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

J. Livingston

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Astrobiology Center, Japan

E. Matthews

University of Geneva

M. S. Lundkvist

Aarhus University

M. L. Winther

Aarhus University

J. L. Rorsted

Aarhus University

S. H. Albrecht

Aarhus University

E. Goffo

University of Turin

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

I Carleo

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

H. J. Deeg

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

University of La Laguna

K. A. Collins

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

N. Narita

Astrobiology Center, Japan

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

University of Tokyo

H. Isaacson

University of California

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

S. Redfield

Wesleyan University

F. Dai

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

T. Hirano

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Astrobiology Center, Japan

J. M. Akana Murphy

University of California at Santa Cruz

C. Beard

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

L. A. Buchhave

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

S. Cary

Wellesley College

A. Chontos

Princeton University

I Crossfield

University of Kansas

W. D. Cochran

University of Texas

D. Conti

American Association of Variable Star Observers

P. A. Dalba

University of California at Santa Cruz

SETI Institute

M. Esposito

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

S. Fajardo-Acosta

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

S. Giacalone

University of California

S. K. Grunblatt

Johns Hopkins University

P. Guerra

Albanyà Astronomical Observatory

A. P. Hatzes

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

R. Holcomb

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

A. W. Howard

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

D. Huber

University of Hawaii

J. M. Jenkins

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

P. Kabath

Czech Academy of Sciences

S. Kane

University of California at Riverside

Judith Korth

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

K. W. F. Lam

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Lester

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

R. Matson

US Naval Observatory

K. K. McLeod

Wellesley College

J. Orell-Miquel

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

University of La Laguna

F. Murgas

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

University of La Laguna

E. Palle

University of La Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

A. S. Polanski

University of Kansas

G. Ricker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

P. Robertson

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

R. Rubenzahl

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

J. E. Schlieder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

S. Seager

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A. M. S. Smith

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

P. Tenenbaum

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

SETI Institute

E. Turtelboom

University of California

R. Vanderspek

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

L. Weiss

University of Notre Dame

J. Winn

Princeton University

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

0035-8711 (ISSN) 1365-2966 (eISSN)

Vol. 519 4 5637-5655

Exoplanets from space -CHEOPS and PLATO ESA's next two projects (Phase 2)

Swedish National Space Board (177/19), 2020-01-01 -- 2022-12-31.

Swedish National Space Board (65/19), 2020-01-01 -- 2022-12-31.

Gender Initiative for Excellence (Genie)

The Chalmers University Foundation, 2019-01-01 -- 2028-12-31.

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Subatomic Physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stac3684

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