101. A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf
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Cañas, Caleb I., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Cochran, William D., Bender, Chad F., Feigelson, Eric D., Harman, C. E., Kopparapu, Ravi Kumar, Caceres, Gabriel A., Diddams, Scott A., Endl, Michael, Ford, Eric B., Halverson, Samuel, Hearty, Fred, Jones, Sinclaire, Kanodia, Shubham, Lin, Andrea S. J., Metcalf, Andrew J., Monson, Andrew, Ninan, Joe P., Ramsey, Lawrence W., Robertson, Paul, Roy, Arpita, Schwab, Christian, and Stefánsson, Guðmundur
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
We validate the planetary nature of an ultra-short period planet orbiting the M dwarf KOI-4777. We use a combination of space-based photometry from Kepler, high-precision, near-infrared Doppler spectroscopy from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, and adaptive optics imaging to characterize this system. KOI-4777.01 is a Mars-sized exoplanet ($\mathrm{R}_{p}=0.51 \pm 0.03R_{\oplus}$) orbiting the host star every 0.412-days ($\sim9.9$-hours). This is the smallest validated ultra-short period planet known and we see no evidence for additional massive companions using our HPF RVs. We constrain the upper $3\sigma$ mass to $M_{p}<0.34~\mathrm{M_\oplus}$ by assuming the planet is less dense than iron. Obtaining a mass measurement for KOI-4777.01 is beyond current instrumental capabilities., Comment: 25 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in AJ
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- 2021
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