The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

We report the discovery of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting the star HD 15337 (TOI-402, TIC 120896927), a bright (V = 9) K1 dwarf observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in Sectors 3 and 4. We combine the TESS photometry with archival High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher spectra to confirm the planetary nature of the transit signals and derive the masses of the two transiting planets. With an orbital period of 4.8 days, a mass of {7.51}-1.01+1.09 {M}\oplus and a radius of 1.64 ± 0.06 R ⊕, HD 15337 b joins the growing group of short-period super-Earths known to have a rocky terrestrial composition. The sub-Neptune HD 15337 c has an orbital period of 17.2 days, a mass of {8.11}-1.69+1.82 {{{M}}}\oplus , and a radius of 2.39 ± 0.12 R ⊕, suggesting that the planet might be surrounded by a thick atmospheric envelope. The two planets have similar masses and lie on opposite sides of the radius gap, and are thus an excellent testbed for planet formation and evolution theories. Assuming that HD 15337 c hosts a hydrogen-dominated envelope, we employ a recently developed planet atmospheric evolution algorithm in a Bayesian framework to estimate the history of the high-energy (extreme ultraviolet and X-ray) emission of the host star. We find that at an age of 150 Myr, the star possessed on average between 3.7 and 127 times the high-energy luminosity of the current Sun.

planets and satellites: detection

planets and satellites: fundamental parameters

stars: fundamental parameters

planets and satellites: individual: HD15337 b & c

planetary systems

Författare

D. Gandolfi

Universita degli Studi di Torino

L. Fossati

IWF

J. H. Livingston

University of Tokyo

K.G. Stassun

Fisk University

Vanderbilt University

S. Grziwa

Universität zu Köln

O. Barragan

University of Oxford

Malcolm Fridlund

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

Universiteit Leiden

D. Kubyshkina

IWF

Carina Persson

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

F. Dai

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Princeton University

K. W. F. Lam

Technische Universität Berlin

S. Albrecht

Aarhus Universitet

N. Batalha

University of California

P. G. Beck

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

A. B. Justesen

Aarhus Universitet

J. Cabrera

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

S. P. Cartwright

Universidad de la Laguna

W. D. Cochran

The University of Texas at Austin

Sz. Csizmadia

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

M. D. Davies

NASA Ames Research Center

H. J. Deeg

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

Ph. Eigmüller

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

M. Endl

The University of Texas at Austin

A. Erikson

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

M. Esposito

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

R. A. García

Université Paris Diderot

R. Goeke

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

L. González-Cuesta

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

E. W. Guenther

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

A. P. Hatzes

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

D. Hidalgo

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

T. Hirano

Tokyo Institute of Technology

M. Hjorth

Aarhus Universitet

P. Kabath

Czech Academy of Sciences

E. Knudstrup

Aarhus Universitet

J. Korth

Czech Academy of Sciences

J. Li

NASA Ames Research Center

R. Luque

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

S. Mathur

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

P. Montanes Rodriguez

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

N. Narita

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

University of Tokyo

Japan Science and Technology Agency

D. Nespral

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

P. Niraula

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

G. Nowak

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

E. Palle

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

M. Pätzold

Fisk University

J. Prieto-Arranz

Universidad de la Laguna

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

H. Rauer

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Technische Universität Berlin

Freie Universität Berlin

S. Redfield

Wesleyan University

I Ribas

Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)

Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE) - CSIC

M. Skarka

Masarykova Univerzita

Czech Academy of Sciences

A. M S Smith

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

P. Rowden

Open University

G. Torres

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Vincent Van Eylen

Princeton University

Michael L. Vezie

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Astrophysical Journal Letters

2041-8205 (ISSN) 2041-8213 (eISSN)

Vol. 876 2 L24

Exoplaneter från rymden - CHEOPS och PLATO, ESA's nästa två missioner

Rymdstyrelsen (174/18), 2017-01-01 -- 2022-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

DOI

10.3847/2041-8213/ab17d9

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2020-09-24