1. The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M Dwarfs
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Yasunori Hori, Akihiko Fukui, Teruyuki Hirano, Norio Narita, Jerome P. de Leon, Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa, Joel D. Hartman, Giuseppe Morello, Nestor Abreu García, Leticia Álvarez Hernández, Víctor J. S. Béjar, Yéssica Calatayud-Borras, Ilaria Carleo, Gareb Enoc, Emma Esparza-Borges, Izuru Fukuda, Daniel Galán, Samuel Geraldía-González, Yuya Hayashi, Masahiro Ikoma, Kai Ikuta, Keisuke Isogai, Taiki Kagetani, Yugo Kawai, Kiyoe Kawauchi, Tadahiro Kimura, Takanori Kodama, Judith Korth, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Andrés Laza-Ramos, John H. Livingston, Rafael Luque, Kohei Miyakawa, Mayuko Mori, Felipe Murgas, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Enric Palle, Hannu Parviainen, Alberto Peláez-Torres, Marta Puig-Subirà, Manuel Sánchez-Benavente, Paula Sosa-Guillén, Monika Stangret, Yuka Terada, Sara Muñoz Torres, Noriharu Watanabe, Gaspar Á. Bakos, Khalid Barkaoui, Charles Beichman, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Andrew W. Boyle, David R. Ciardi, Catherine A. Clark, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Dennis M. Conti, Ian J.M. Crossfield, Mark E. Everett, Elise Furlan, Mourad Ghachoui, Michaël Gillon, Erica J. Gonzales, Jesus Higuera, Keith Horne, Steve B. Howell, Emmanuël Jehin, Kathryn V. Lester, Michael B. Lund, Rachel Matson, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Boris S. Safonov, Joshua E. Schlieder, Richard P. Schwarz, Ramotholo Sefako, Gregor Srdoc, Ivan A. Strakhov, Mathilde Timmermans, William C. Waalkes, Carl Ziegler, David Charbonneau, Zahra Essack, Natalia M. Guerrero, Hiroki Harakawa, Christina Hedges, Masato Ishizuka, Jon M. Jenkins, Mihoko Konishi, Takayuki Kotani, Tomoyuki Kudo, Takashi Kurokawa, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Jun Nishikawa, Masashi Omiya, George R. Ricker, Sara Seager, Takuma Serizawa, Stephanie Striegel, Motohide Tamura, Akitoshi Ueda, Roland Vanderspek, Sébastien Vievard, and Joshua N. Winn
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Exoplanets ,Mini Neptunes ,Radial velocity ,Transit photometry ,Tides ,M dwarf stars ,Astronomy ,QB1-991 - Abstract
Sub-Neptunes with radii of 2–3 R _⊕ are intermediate in size between rocky planets and Neptune-sized planets. The orbital properties and bulk compositions of transiting sub-Neptunes provide clues to the formation and evolution of close-in small planets. In this paper, we present the discovery and follow-up of four sub-Neptunes orbiting M dwarfs (TOI-782, TOI-1448, TOI-2120, and TOI-2406), three of which were newly validated by ground-based follow-up observations and statistical analyses. TOI-782 b, TOI-1448 b, TOI-2120 b, and TOI-2406 b have radii of ${R}_{{\rm{p}}}={2.740}_{-0.079}^{+0.082}\,{R}_{\oplus }$ , ${2.769}_{-0.068}^{+0.073}\,{R}_{\oplus }$ , 2.120 ± 0.067 R _⊕ , and ${2.830}_{-0.066}^{+0.068}\,{R}_{\oplus }$ and orbital periods of P = 8.02, 8.11, 5.80, and 3.08 days, respectively. Doppler monitoring with the Subaru/InfraRed Doppler instrument led to 2 σ upper limits on the masses of
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- 2024
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