1. Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion
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Knudstrup, E., Gandolfi, D., Nowak, G., Persson, C. M., Furlan, E., Livingston, J., Matthews, E., Lundkvist, M. S., Winther, M. L., Rørsted, J. L., Albrecht, S. H., Goffo, E., Carleo, I., Deeg, H. J., Collins, K. A., Narita, N., Isaacson, H., Redfield, S., Dai, F., Hirano, T., Murphy, J. M. Akana, Beard, C., Buchhave, L. A., Cary, S., Chontos, A., Crossfield, I., Cochran, W. D., Conti, D., Dalba, P. A., Esposito, M., Fajardo-Acosta, S., Giacalone, S., Grunblatt, S. K., Guerra, P., Hatzes, A. P., Holcomb, R., Horta, F. G., Howard, A. W., Huber, D., Jenkins, J. M., Kabáth, P., Kane, S., Korth, J., Lam, K. W. F., Lester, K. V., Matson, R., McLeod, K. K., Orell-Miquel, J., Murgas, F., Palle, E., Polanski, A. S., Ricker, G., Robertson, P., Rubenzahl, R., Schlieder, J E., Seager, S., Smith, A. M. S., Tenenbaum, P., Turtelboom, E., Vanderspek, R., Weiss, L., and Winn, J.
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
We report the discovery and confirmation of the planetary system TOI-1288. This late G dwarf harbours two planets: TOI-1288 b and TOI-1288 c. We combine TESS space-borne and ground-based transit photometry with HARPS-N and HIRES high-precision Doppler measurements, which we use to constrain the masses of both planets in the system and the radius of planet b. TOI-1288~b has a period of $2.699835^{+0.000004}_{-0.000003}$ d, a radius of $5.24 \pm 0.09$ R$_\oplus$, and a mass of $42 \pm 3$ M$_\oplus$, making this planet a hot transiting super-Neptune situated right in the Neptunian desert. This desert refers to a paucity of Neptune-sized planets on short period orbits. Our 2.4-year-long Doppler monitoring of TOI-1288 revealed the presence of a Saturn-mass planet on a moderately eccentric orbit ($0.13^{+0.07}_{-0.09}$) with a minimum mass of $84 \pm 7$ M$_\oplus$ and a period of $443^{+11}_{-13}$ d. The 5 sectors worth of TESS data do not cover our expected mid-transit time for TOI-1288 c, and we do not detect a transit for this planet in these sectors., Comment: 16 pages, 17 figures, under review MNRAS
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- 2022
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