1. NGTS-33b: a young super-Jupiter hosted by a fast-rotating massive hot star.
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Alves, Douglas R, Jenkins, James S, Vines, Jose I, Battley, Matthew P, Lendl, Monika, Bouchy, François, Nielsen, Louise D, Gill, Samuel, Moyano, Maximiliano, Anderson, D R, Burleigh, Matthew R, Casewell, Sarah L, Goad, Michael R, Hawthorn, Faith, Kendall, Alicia, McCormac, James, Osborn, Ares, Smith, Alexis M S, Udry, Stéphane, and Wheatley, Peter J
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NATURAL satellites ,SUPERGIANT stars ,HOT Jupiters ,EMISSION spectroscopy ,PLANETARY systems - Abstract
In the last few decades, planet search surveys have been focusing on solar-type stars, and only recently the high-mass regimes. This is mostly due to challenges arising from the lack of instrumental precision, and more importantly, the inherent active nature of fast-rotating massive stars. Here, we report NGTS-33b (TOI-6442b), a super-Jupiter planet with mass, radius, and orbital period of 3.6 |$\pm$| 0.3 M |$_{\rm J}$| , 1.64 |$\pm$| 0.07 R |$_{\rm J}$| , and |$2.827\,972 \pm 0.000\,001$| d, respectively. The host is a fast-rotating (|$0.6654 \pm 0.0006$| d) and hot (T |$_{\rm eff}$| = 7437 |$\pm$| 72 K) A9V type star, with a mass and radius of 1.60 |$\pm$| 0.11 M |$_{\odot }$| and 1.47 |$\pm$| 0.06 R |$_{\odot }$| , respectively. Planet structure and gyrochronology models show that NGTS-33 is also very young with age limits of 10–50 Myr. In addition, membership analysis points towards the star being part of the Vela OB2 association, which has an age of |$\sim$| 20–35 Myr, thus providing further evidence about the young nature of NGTS-33. Its low bulk density of 0.19 |$\pm$| 0.03 g cm |$^{-3}$| is 13 per cent smaller than expected when compared to transiting hot Jupiters (HJs) with similar masses. Such cannot be solely explained by its age, where an up to 15 per cent inflated atmosphere is expected from planet structure models. Finally, we found that its emission spectroscopy metric is similar to JWST community targets, making the planet an interesting target for atmospheric follow-up. Therefore, NGTS-33b's discovery will not only add to the scarce population of young, massive and HJs, but will also help place further strong constraints on current formation and evolution models for such planetary systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2025
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