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141. Radial velocities & light curves for HATS-43-HATS-46
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/112
Title:
Radial velocities & light curves for HATS-43-HATS-46
Short Name:
J/AJ/155/112
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the discovery of four short-period extrasolar planets transiting moderately bright stars from photometric measurements of the HATSouth network coupled to additional spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations. While the planet masses range from 0.26 to 0.90 M_J_, the radii are all approximately a Jupiter radii, resulting in a wide range of bulk densities. The orbital period of the planets ranges from 2.7 days to 4.7 days, with HATS-43b having an orbit that appears to be marginally non-circular (e=0.173+/-0.089). HATS-44 is notable for having a high metallicity ([Fe/H]=0.320+/-0.071). The host stars spectral types range from late F to early K, and all of them are moderately bright (13.3<V<14.4), allowing the execution of future detailed follow-up observations. HATS-43b and HATS-46b, with expected transmission signals of 2350 ppm and 1500 ppm, respectively, are particularly well suited targets for atmospheric characterization via transmission spectroscopy.
142. Radial velocity characterization of TESS planets
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/82
Title:
Radial velocity characterization of TESS planets
Short Name:
J/AJ/156/82
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting planets around bright stars. Many TESS discoveries will be amenable to mass characterization via ground-based radial velocity measurements with any of a growing suite of existing and anticipated velocimeters in the optical and near-infrared. In this study we present an analytical formalism to compute the number of radial velocity (RV) measurements - and hence the total observing time-required to characterize RV planet masses with the inclusion of either a white or correlated noise activity model. We use our model to calculate the total observing time required to measure all TESS planet masses from the expected TESS planet yield while relying on our current understanding of the targeted stars, stellar activity, and populations of unseen planets that inform the expected RV precision. We also present specialized calculations applicable to a variety of interesting subsets of TESS planets including the characterization of 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii, which is expected to take as little as 60 nights of observation. However, the efficient RV characterization of such planets requires a priori knowledge of the "best" targets, which we argue can be identified prior to the conclusion of the TESS planet search based on our calculations. Our results highlight the comparable performance of optical and near-IR spectrographs for most planet populations except for Earths and temperate TESS planets, which are more efficiently characterized in the near-IR. Lastly, we present an online tool to the community to compute the total observing times required to detect any transiting planet using a user-defined spectrograph (RVFC; http://maestria.astro.umontreal.ca/rvfc).
143. Radial velocity estimates of 4 stars with IGRINS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/283
Title:
Radial velocity estimates of 4 stars with IGRINS
Short Name:
J/AJ/161/283
Date:
08 Mar 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Application of the radial velocity (RV) technique in the near-infrared is valuable because of the diminished impact of stellar activity at longer wavelengths, making it particularly advantageous for the study of late-type stars but also for solar-type objects. In this paper, we present the IGRINS RV open-source python pipeline for computing infrared RV measurements from reduced spectra taken with IGRINS, an R~{lambda}/{Delta}{lambda}~45000 spectrograph with simultaneous coverage of the H-band (1.49-1.80{mu}m) and K-band (1.96-2.46{mu}m). Using a modified forward-modeling technique, we construct high-resolution telluric templates from A0 standard observations on a nightly basis to provide a source of common-path wavelength calibration while mitigating the need to mask or correct for telluric absorption. Telluric standard observations are also used to model the variations in instrumental resolution across the detector, including a yearlong period when the K-band was defocused. Without any additional instrument hardware, such as a gas cell or laser frequency comb, we are able to achieve precisions of 26.8m/s in the K-band and 31.1m/s in the H-band for narrow-line hosts. These precisions are empirically determined by a monitoring campaign of two RV standard stars, as well as the successful retrieval of planet-induced RV signals for both HD189733 and {tau}BooA; furthermore, our results affirm the presence of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for HD189733. The IGRINS RV pipeline extends another important science capability to IGRINS, with publicly available software designed for widespread use.
144. Radial Velocity jitters in ~600 planet host stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/235
Title:
Radial Velocity jitters in ~600 planet host stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/159/235
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Radial velocity (RV) detection of planets is hampered by astrophysical processes on the surfaces of stars that induce a stochastic signal, or "jitter," which can drown out or even mimic planetary signals. Here, we empirically and carefully measure the RV jitter of more than 600 stars from the California Planet Search sample on a star by star basis. As part of this process, we explore the activity-RV correlation of stellar cycles and include appendices listing every ostensibly companion-induced signal we removed and every activity cycle we noted. We then use precise stellar properties from Brewer+, 2017ApJS..230...12B to separate the sample into bins of stellar mass and examine trends with activity and with evolutionary state. We find that RV jitter tracks stellar evolution and that in general, stars evolve through different stages of RV jitter: the jitter in younger stars is driven by magnetic activity, while the jitter in older stars is convectively driven and dominated by granulation and oscillations. We identify the "jitter minimum"-where activity-driven and convectively driven jitter have similar amplitudes-for stars between 0.7 and 1.7M{sun} and find that more-massive stars reach this jitter minimum later in their lifetime, in the subgiant or even giant phases. Finally, we comment on how these results can inform future RV efforts, from prioritization of follow-up targets from transit surveys like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to target selection of future RV surveys.
145. Radial velocity measurements for 7 stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A71
Title:
Radial velocity measurements for 7 stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/625/A71
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Since 1998, a planet-search around main sequence stars within 50pc in the southern hemisphere has been underway with the CORALIE spectrograph at La Silla Observatory. With an observing time span of more than 20 years, the CORALIE survey is able to detect long-term trends in data with masses and separations large enough to select ideal targets for direct imaging. Detecting these giant companion candidates will allow us to start bridging the gap between radial-velocity-detected exoplanets and directly imaged planets and brown dwarfs. Long-term precise Doppler measurements with the CORALIE spectrograph reveal radial-velocity signatures of massive planetary companions and brown dwarfs on long-period orbits. In this paper we report the discovery of new companions orbiting HD 181234, HD 13724, HD 25015, HD 92987 and HD 50499. We also report updated orbital parameters for HD 50499b, HD 92788b and HD 98649b. In addition, we confirm the recent detection of HD 92788c. The newly reported companions span a period range of 15.6 to 40.4 years and a mass domain of 2.93 to 26.77 MJup, the latter of which straddles the nominal boundary between planets and brown dwarfs. We report the detection of five new companions and updated parameters of four known extrasolar planets. We identify at least some of these companions to be promising candidates for imaging and further characterisation.
146. Radial velocity observations in super-Earth systems
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/52
Title:
Radial velocity observations in super-Earth systems
Short Name:
J/AJ/157/52
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use radial velocity (RV) observations to search for long-period gas giant companions in systems hosting inner super-Earth (1-4 R_{Earth}_, 1-10 M_{Earth}_) planets to constrain formation and migration scenarios for this population. We consistently refit published RV data sets for 65 stars and find nine systems with statistically significant trends indicating the presence of an outer companion. We combine these RV data with AO images to constrain the masses and semi-major axes of these companions. We quantify our sensitivity to the presence of long-period companions by fitting the sample with a power-law distribution and find an occurrence rate of 39%+/-7% for companions 0.5-20 M_Jup_ and 1-20 au. Half of our systems were discovered by the transit method, and half were discovered by the RV method. While differences in the RV baselines and number of data points between the two samples lead to different sensitivities to distant companions, we find that occurrence rates of gas giant companions in each sample are consistent at the 0.5{sigma} level. We compare the frequency of Jupiter analogs in these systems to the equivalent rate from field star surveys and find that Jupiter analogs are more common around stars hosting super-Earths. We conclude that the presence of outer gas giants does not suppress the formation of inner super-Earths, and that these two populations of planets instead appear to be correlated. We also find that the stellar metallicities of systems with gas giant companions are higher than those without companions, in agreement with the well-established metallicity correlation from RV surveys of field stars.
147. Revised radii of KIC stars & planets using Gaia DR2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/866/99
Title:
Revised radii of KIC stars & planets using Gaia DR2
Short Name:
J/ApJ/866/99
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
One bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and evolutionary states for most of the observed stars. We report revised radii of 177911 Kepler stars derived by combining parallaxes from the Gaia Data Release 2 with the DR25 Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. The median radius precision is ~8%, a typical improvement by a factor of 4-5 over previous estimates for typical Kepler stars. We find that ~67% (~120000) of all Kepler targets are main-sequence stars, ~21% (~37000) are subgiants, and ~12% (~21000) are red giants, demonstrating that subgiant contamination is less severe than some previous estimates and that Kepler targets are mostly main-sequence stars. Using the revised stellar radii, we recalculate the radii for 2123 confirmed and 1922 candidate exoplanets. We confirm the presence of a gap in the radius distribution of small, close-in planets, but find that the gap is mostly limited to incident fluxes >200F_{Earth}_, and its location may be at a slightly larger radius (closer to ~2R_{Earth}_) when compared to previous results. Furthermore, we find several confirmed exoplanets occupying a previously described "hot super-Earth desert" at high irradiance, show the relation between a gas-giant planet's radius and its incident flux, and establish a bona fide sample of eight confirmed planets and 30 planet candidates with Rp<2R_{Earth}_ in circumstellar "habitable zones" (incident fluxes between 0.25 and 1.50F_{Earth}_). The results presented here demonstrate the potential for transformative characterization of stellar and exoplanet populations using Gaia data.
148. Robo-AO detected close binaries in Gaia DR2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/259
Title:
Robo-AO detected close binaries in Gaia DR2
Short Name:
J/AJ/156/259
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use the Robo-AO survey of Kepler planetary candidate host stars, the largest adaptive optics survey yet performed, to measure the recovery rate of close stellar binaries in Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345). We find that Gaia recovers binaries down to 1" at magnitude contrasts as large as six; closer systems are not resolved, regardless of secondary brightness. Gaia DR2 binary detection does not have a strong dependence on the orientation of the stellar pairs. We find 177 nearby stars to Kepler planetary candidate host stars in Gaia DR2 that were not detected in the Robo-AO survey, almost all of which are faint (G>20); the remainder were largely targets observed by Robo-AO in poor conditions. If the primary star is the host, the impact on the radii estimates of planet candidates in these systems is likely minimal; many of these faint stars, however, could be faint eclipsing binaries that are the source of a false positive planetary transit signal. With Robo-AO and Gaia combined, we find that 18.7+/-0.7% of Kepler planet candidate hosts have nearby stars within 4". We also find 36 nearby stars in Gaia DR2 around 35 planetary candidate host stars detected with K2. The nearby star fraction rate for K2 planetary candidates is significantly lower than that for the primary Kepler mission. The binary recovery rate of Gaia will improve initial radius estimates of future Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite planet candidates significantly; however, ground-based high-resolution follow-up observations are still needed for precise characterization and confirmation. The sensitivity of Gaia to closely separated binaries is expected to improve in later data releases.
149. Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey. III.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/66
Title:
Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey. III.
Short Name:
J/AJ/153/66
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey is observing every Kepler planet candidate host star with laser adaptive optics imaging to search for blended nearby stars, which may be physically associated companions and/or responsible for transit false positives. In this paper, we present the results of our search for stars nearby 1629 Kepler planet candidate hosts. With survey sensitivity to objects as close as ~0.15", and magnitude differences {Delta}m=<6, we find 223 stars in the vicinity of 206 target KOIs; 209 of these nearby stars have not been previously imaged in high resolution. We measure an overall nearby-star probability for Kepler planet candidates of 12.6%+/-0.9% at separations between 0.15" and 4.0". Particularly interesting KOI systems are discussed, including 26 stars with detected companions that host rocky, habitable zone candidates and five new candidate planet-hosting quadruple star systems. We explore the broad correlations between planetary systems and stellar binarity, using the combined data set of Baranec et al. (2016, J/AJ/152/18) and this paper. Our previous 2{sigma} result of a low detected nearby star fraction of KOIs hosting close-in giant planets is less apparent in this larger data set. We also find a significant correlation between detected nearby star fraction and KOI number, suggesting possible variation between early and late Kepler data releases.
150. Rotational periods and J_2_ of Kepler stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/890/L31
Title:
Rotational periods and J_2_ of Kepler stars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/890/L31
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Ultra-short-period planets (USPs) provide important clues to planetary formation and migration. It was recently found that the mutual inclinations of the planetary systems are larger if the inner orbits are closer (<~5R_*_) and if the planetary period ratios are larger (P_2_/P_1_>~5). This suggests that the USPs experienced both inclination excitation and orbital shrinkage. Here we investigate the increase in the mutual inclination due to stellar oblateness. We find that the stellar oblateness (within ~1Gyr) is sufficient to enhance the mutual inclination to explain the observed signatures. This suggests that the USPs can migrate closer to the host star in a near coplanar configuration with their planetary companions (e.g., disk migration+tides or in situ+tides), before mutual inclination gets excited due to stellar oblateness.