Description
We report the discovery of two transiting Neptunes by the HATSouth survey. The planet HATS-37Ab has a mass of 0.099{+/-}0.042M_Jup_ (31.5{+/-}13.4M{Earth}) and a radius of 0.606{+/-}0.016R_Jup_, and is on a P=4.3315day orbit around a V=12.266{+/-}0.030mag, 0.843_-0.012_^+0.017^M{odot} star with a radius of 0.877_-0.012_^+0.019^R{odot}. We also present evidence that the star HATS-37A has an unresolved stellar companion HATS-37B, with a photometrically estimated mass of 0.654{+/-}0.033M{odot}. The planet HATS-38b has a mass of 0.074{+/-}0.011M_Jup_ (23.5{+/-}3.5M{Earth}) and a radius of 0.614{+/-}0.017R_Jup_, and is on a P=4.3750day orbit around a V=12.411{+/-}0.030mag, 0.890_-0.012_^+0.016^M{odot} star with a radius of 1.105{+/-}0.016 R{odot}. Both systems appear to be old, with isochrone-based ages of 11.46_-1.45_^+0.79^Gyr, and 11.89{+/-}0.60Gyr, respectively. Both HATS-37Ab and HATS-38b lie in the Neptune desert and are thus examples of a population with a low occurrence rate. They are also among the lowest-mass planets found from ground-based wide-field surveys to date.
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