- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/222
- Title:
- RVs and RI-photometry of HATS-37 and HATS-38
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/222
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- 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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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/89
- Title:
- RVs & predicted transit-times for the K2-24 system
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- While planets between the size of Uranus and Saturn are absent within the solar system, the star K2-24 hosts two such planets, K2-24b and c, with radii equal to 5.4 R_{Earth}_ and 7.5 R_{Earth}_, respectively. The two planets have orbital periods of 20.9 days and 42.4 days, residing only 1% outside the nominal 2:1 mean-motion resonance. In this work, we present results from a coordinated observing campaign to measure planet masses and eccentricities that combines radial velocity measurements from Keck/HIRES and transit-timing measurements from K2 and Spitzer. K2-24b and c have low, but nonzero, eccentricities of e_1_~e_2_~0.08. The low observed eccentricities provide clues to the formation and dynamical evolution of K2-24b and K2-24c, suggesting that they could be the result of stochastic gravitational interactions with a turbulent protoplanetary disk, among other mechanisms. K2-24b and c are 19.0_-2.1_^+2.2^ M_{Earth}_ and 15.4_-1.8_^+1.9^ M_{Earth}_, respectively; K2-24c is 20% less massive than K2-24b, despite being 40% larger. Their large sizes and low masses imply large envelope fractions, which we estimate at 26_-3_^+3^ % and 52_-3_^+5^ %. In particular, K2-24c's large envelope presents an intriguing challenge to the standard model of core-nucleated accretion that predicts the onset of runaway accretion when f_env_~50%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/120
- Title:
- RV variability of the K-giant {gamma} Draconis
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/120
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present precise stellar radial velocity (RV) measurements of {gamma} Dra taken from 2003 to 2017. The data from 2003 to 2011 show coherent, long-lived variations with a period of 702 days. These variations are consistent with the presence of a planetary companion having m sin i=10.7 M_Jup_ whose orbital properties are typical for giant planets found around evolved stars. An analysis of the Hipparcos photometry, Ca II S-index measurements, and measurements of the spectral line shapes during this time show no variations with the RV of the planet, which seems to "confirm" the presence of the planet. However, RV measurements taken from 2011-2017 seem to refute this. From 2011-2013, the RV variations virtually disappear, only to return in 2014 but with a noticeable phase shift. The total RV variations are consistent either with amplitude variations on timescales of ~10.6 year, or the beating effect between two periods of 666 and 801 days. It seems unlikely that both these signals stem from a two-planet system. A simple dynamical analysis indicates that there is only a 1%-2% chance that the two-planet system is stable. Rather, we suggest that this multi-periodic behavior may represent a new form of stellar variability, possibly related to oscillatory convective modes. If such intrinsic stellar variability is common around K giant stars and is attributed to planetary companions, then the planet occurrence rate among these stars may be significantly lower than thought.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/259
- Title:
- Scaling K2. IV. Campaigns 1-8 & 10-18 planets sample
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/259
- Date:
- 15 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We provide the first full K2 transiting exoplanet sample, using photometry from Campaigns 1-8 and 10-18, derived through an entirely automated procedure. This homogeneous planet candidate catalog is crucial to perform a robust demographic analysis of transiting exoplanets with K2. We identify 747 unique planet candidates and 57 multiplanet systems. Of these candidates, 366 have not been previously identified, including one resonant multiplanet system and one system with two short-period gas giants. By automating the construction of this list, measurements of sample biases (completeness and reliability) can be quantified. We carried out a light-curve-level injection/recovery test of artificial transit signals and found a maximum completeness of 61%, a consequence of the significant detrending required for K2 data analysis. Through this operation we attained measurements of the detection efficiency as a function of signal strength, enabling future population analysis using this sample. We assessed the reliability of our planet sample by testing our vetting software EDI-Vetter against inverted transit-free light curves. We estimate that 91% of our planet candidates are real astrophysical signals, increasing up to 94% when limited to the FGKM dwarf stellar population. We also constrain the contamination rate from background eclipsing binaries to less than 5%. The presented catalog, along with the completeness and reliability measurements, enable robust exoplanet demographic studies to be carried out across the fields observed by the K2 mission for the first time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/869/66
- Title:
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence with ATA
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/869/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report a novel radio autocorrelation search for extraterrestrial intelligence. For selected frequencies across the terrestrial microwave window (1-10GHz), observations were conducted at the Allen Telescope Array to identify artificial non-sinusoidal periodic signals with radio bandwidths greater than 4Hz, which are capable of carrying substantial messages with symbol rates from 4 to 10^6^Hz. Out of 243 observations, about half (101) were directed toward sources with known continuum flux >~1Jy over the sampled bandwidth (quasars, pulsars, supernova remnants, and masers), based on the hypothesis that they might harbor heretofore undiscovered natural or artificial repetitive, phase or frequency modulation. The rest of the observations were directed mostly toward exoplanet stars with no previously discovered continuum flux. No signals attributable to extraterrestrial technology were found in this study. We conclude that the maximum probability that future observations like the ones described here will reveal repetitively modulated emissions is less than 5% for continuum sources and exoplanets alike. The paper concludes by describing a new approach to expanding this survey to many more targets and much greater sensitivity using archived data from interferometers all over the world.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/70/181
- Title:
- Search for Planets in Hot Jupiter Systems
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/70/181
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Origins of giant planets on tight orbits, so called hot Jupiters, are a long-lasting question in the planetary formation and evolution theory. The answer seems to be hidden in architectures of those systems that remain only partially understood. Using multi-sector time-series photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, we searched for additional planets in the KELT-18, KELT-23, KELT-24, Qatar-8, WASP-62, WASP-100, WASP-119, and WASP-126 planetary systems using both the transit technique and transit timing method. Our homogeneous analysis has eliminated the presence of transiting companions down to the terrestrial-size regime in the KELT-23 and WASP-62 systems, and down to mini-Neptunes or Neptunes in the remaining ones. Transit timing analysis has revealed no sign of either long-term trends or periodic perturbations for all the studied hot Jupiters, including the WASP-126 b for which deviations from a Keplerian model were claimed in the literature. The loneliness of the planets of the sample speaks in favor of the high-eccentricity migration mechanism that probably brought them to their tight orbits observed nowadays. As a by-product of our study, the transit light curve parameters were redetermined with a substantial improvement of the precision for six systems. For KELT-24 b, a joint analysis allowed us to place a tighter constraint on its orbital eccentricity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/206
- Title:
- Search for rings around Kepler planet candidates
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/206
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a systematic search for rings around 168 Kepler planet candidates with sufficient signal-to-noise ratios that are selected from all of the short-cadence data. We fit ringed and ringless models to their light curves and compare the fitting results to search for the signatures of planetary rings. First, we identify 29 tentative systems, for which the ringed models exhibit statistically significant improvement over the ringless models. The light curves of those systems are individually examined, but we are not able to identify any candidate that indicates evidence for rings. In turn, we find several mechanisms of false positives that would produce ringlike signals, and the null detection enables us to place upper limits on the size of the rings. Furthermore, assuming the tidal alignment between axes of the planetary rings and orbits, we conclude that the occurrence rate of rings larger than twice the planetary radius is less than 15%. Even though the majority of our targets are short-period planets, our null detection provides statistical and quantitative constraints on largely uncertain theoretical models of the origin, formation, and evolution of planetary rings.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/84
- Title:
- Searching for Small Circumbinary Planets. I. STANLEY
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/84
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 11:40:27
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- No circumbinary planets have been discovered smaller than 3R{Earth}, yet planets of this small size comprise over 75% of the discoveries around single stars. The observations do not prove the nonexistence of small circumbinary planets; rather, they are much harder to find than around single stars because their transit timing variations are much larger than the transit durations. We present Stanley, an automated algorithm to find small circumbinary planets. It employs custom methods to detrend eclipsing binary light curves and stack shallow transits of variable duration and interval using N-body integrations. Applied to the Kepler circumbinaries, we recover all known planets, including the three planets of Kepler-47, and constrain the absence of additional planets of similar or smaller size. We also show that we could have detected <3R{Earth} planets in half of the known systems. Our work will ultimately be applied to a broad sample of eclipsing binaries to (hopefully) produce new discoveries and derive a circumbinary size distribution that can be compared to that for single stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/124
- Title:
- Searching Kepler data. I. 17 new planets
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an independent search of all ~200000 stars observed over the four year Kepler mission (Q1-Q17) for multiplanet systems, using a three-transit minimum detection criterion to search orbital periods up to hundreds of days. We incorporate both automated and manual triage, and provide estimates of the completeness and reliability of our vetting pipeline. Our search returned 17 planet candidates (PCs) in addition to thousands of known Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), with a 98.8% recovery rate of already confirmed planets. We highlight the discovery of one candidate, KIC-7340288b, that is both rocky (radius=<1.6R_{Earth}_) and in the Habitable Zone (insolation between 0.25 and 2.2 times the Earth's insolation). Another candidate is an addition to the already known KOI-4509 system. We also present adaptive optics imaging follow-up for six of our new PCs, two of which reveal a line-of-sight stellar companion within 4".
350. SHINE II
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/651/A71
- Title:
- SHINE II
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/651/A71
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In recent decades, direct imaging has confirmed the existence of substellar companions (exoplanets or brown dwarfs) on wide orbits (>10 au) around their host stars. In striving to understand their formation and evolution mechanisms, in 2015 we initiated the SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE), a systematic direct imaging survey of young, nearby stars that is targeted at exploring their demographics. We aim to detect and characterize the population of giant planets and brown dwarfs beyond the snow line around young, nearby stars. Combined with the survey completeness, our observations offer the opportunity to constrain the statistical properties (occurrence, mass and orbital distributions, dependency on the stellar mass) of these young giant planets. In this study, we present the observing and data analysis strategy, the ranking process of the detected candidates, and the survey performances for a subsample of 150 stars that are representative of the full SHINE sample. Observations were conducted in a homogeneous way between February 2015 and February 2017 with the dedicated ground-based VLT/SPHERE instrument equipped with the IFS integral field spectrograph and the IRDIS dual-band imager, covering a spectral range between 0.9 and 2.3m. We used coronographic, angular, and spectral differential imaging techniques to achieve the best detection performances for this study, down to the planetary mass regime. We processed, in a uniform manner, more than 300 SHINE observations and datasets to assess the survey typical sensitivity as a function of the host star and of the observing conditions. The median detection performance reached 5-contrasts of 13mag at 200mas and 14.2mag at 800mas with the IFS (YJ and YJH bands), and of 11.8mag at 200mas, 13.1mag at 800mas, and 15.8mag at 3as with IRDIS in H band, delivering one of the deepest sensitivity surveys thus far for young, nearby stars. A total of sixteen substellar companions were imaged in this first part of SHINE: seven brown dwarf companions and ten planetary-mass companions. These include two new discoveries, HIP 65426 b and HIP 64892 B, but not the planets around PDS70 that had not been originally selected for the SHINE core sample. A total of 1483 candidates were detected, mainly in the large field of view that characterizes IRDIS. The color-magnitude diagrams, low-resolution spectrum (when available with IFS), and follow-up observations enabled us to identify the nature (background contaminant or comoving companion) of about 86% of our subsample. The remaining cases are often connected to crowded-field follow-up observations that were missing. Finally, even though SHINE was not initially designed for disk searches, we imaged twelve circumstellar disks, including three new detections around the HIP 73145, HIP 86598, and HD106906 systems. Nowadays, direct imaging provides a unique opportunity to probe the outer part of exoplanetary systems beyond 10au to explore planetary architectures, as highlighted by the discoveries of: one new exoplanet, one new brown dwarf companion, and three new debris disks during this early phase of SHINE. It also offers the opportunity to explore and revisit the physical and orbital properties of these young, giant planets and brown dwarf companions (relative position, photometry, and low-resolution spectrum in near-infrared, predicted masses, and contrast in order to search for additional companions). Finally, these results highlight the importance of finalizing the SHINE systematic observation of about 500 young, nearby stars for a full exploration of their outer part to explore the demographics of young giant planets beyond 10au and to identify the most interesting systems for the next generation of high-contrast imagers on very large and extremely large telescopes.
