TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024
We report on the precise radial velocity follow-up of TOI-544 (HD 290498),ã bright K star ( V = 10.8), which hostsã small transiting planet recently disco v ered by the Trãnsiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) . We collected 122 high-resolution High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS)ãnd HARPS-N spectra to spectroscopically confirm the transiting planetãnd measure its mass. The nearly 3-yr baseline of our follow-upãllowed us to unveil the presence ofãnãdditional, non-transiting, longer-period companion planet. We derivedã radiusãnd mass for the inner planet, TOI-544 b, of 2.018 ±0.076 R⊙and 2.89 ±0.48 M⊙, respectively, which givesã bulk density of 1 . 93 + 0 . 30 -0 . 25 g cm -3 . TOI-544 c hasã minimum mass of 21.5 ±2.0 M⊙and orbital period of 50.1 ±0.2 d. The low density of planet-b implies that it has eitherãn Earth-like rocky core withã hydrogenãtmosphere, orã composition which harboursã significant fraction of water. The composition interpretation is degenerate depending on the specific choice of planet interior models used. Additionally, TOI-544 b hasãn orbital period of 1.55 dãnd equilibrium temperature of 999 ±14 K, placing it within the predicted location of the radius valley, where few planetsãre expected. TOI-544 b isã top target for futureãtmospheric observations, for example with JWST , which would enable better constraints of the planet composition.
techniques: radial velocities
planetsãnd satellites: composition
planetsãnd satellites: detection
Författare
H. L.M. Osborne
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
University College London (UCL)
Vincent Van Eylen
University College London (UCL)
E. Goffo
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
Universita degli Studi di Torino
D. Gandolfi
Universita degli Studi di Torino
G. Nowak
Universidad de la Laguna
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Carina Persson
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
J.H. Livingston
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
A. Weeks
University College London (UCL)
Enric Palle
Universidad de la Laguna
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
R. Luque
University of Chicago
Coel Hellier
Keele University
Ilaria Carleo
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
S. Redfield
Wesleyan University
T. Hirano
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
M. Garbaccio Gili
Universita degli Studi di Torino
Javier Alarcon
European Southern Observatory Santiago
O. Barragán
University of Oxford
Núria Casasayas-Barris
Universidad de la Laguna
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Matías R. Díaz
Las Campanas Observatory
M. Esposito
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
E. Knudstrup
Aarhus Universitet
James S. Jenkins
Centro de Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA),
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)
F. Murgas
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Universidad de la Laguna
J. Orell-Miquel
Universidad de la Laguna
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
F. Rodler
European Southern Observatory Santiago
L. M. Serrano
Universita degli Studi di Torino
M. Stangret
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Universidad de la Laguna
S. H. Albrecht
Aarhus Universitet
A. Alqasim
University College London (UCL)
William D. Cochran
The University of Texas at Austin
H. Deeg
Universidad Diego Portales
University of Chicago
Malcolm Fridlund
Universiteit Leiden
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
A. Hatzes
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
Judith Korth
Lunds universitet
K. W.F. Lam
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
0035-8711 (ISSN) 1365-2966 (eISSN)
Vol. 527 4 11138-11157Ämneskategorier
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stad3837