1. Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488).
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Kemmer, J., Stock, S., Kossakowski, D., Kaminski, A., Molaverdikhani, K., Schlecker, M., Caballero, J. A., Amado, P. J., Astudillo-Defru, N., Bonfils, X., Ciardi, D., Collins, K. A., Espinoza, N., Fukui, A., Hirano, T., Jenkins, J. M., Latham, D. W., Matthews, E. C., Narita, N., and Pallé, E.
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INNER planets ,PLANETARY mass ,EMISSION spectroscopy ,ASTRONOMICAL transits ,PLANETARY orbits ,DWARF stars - Abstract
We present the confirmation and characterisation of GJ 3473 b (G 50–16, TOI-488.01), a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting an M4 dwarf star, whose transiting signal (P = 1.1980035 ± 0.0000018 d) was first detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Through a joint modelling of follow-up radial velocity observations with CARMENES, IRD, and HARPS together with extensive ground-based photometric follow-up observations with LCOGT, MuSCAT, and MuSCAT2, we determined a precise planetary mass, M
b = 1.86 ± 0.30 M⊕ , and radius, Rb = 1.264 ± 0.050 R⊕ . Additionally, we report the discovery of a second, temperate, non-transiting planet in the system, GJ 3473 c, which has a minimum mass, Mc sin i = 7.41 ± 0.91 M⊕ , and orbital period, Pc = 15.509 ± 0.033 d. The inner planet of the system, GJ 3473 b, is one of the hottest transiting Earth-sized planets known thus far, accompanied by a dynamical mass measurement, which makes it a particularly attractive target for thermal emission spectroscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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