TOI-1670 b and c

Full list of authors: Tran, Quang H.; Bowler, Brendan P.; Endl, Michael; Cochran, William D.; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Gandolfi, Davide; Persson, Carina M.; Fridlund, Malcolm; Palle, Enric; Nowak, Grzegorz; Deeg, Hans J.; Luque, Rafael; Livingston, John H.; Kabáth, Petr; Skarka, Marek; Šubjak, Ján; Howell, Steve B.; Albrecht, Simon H.; Collins, Karen A.; Esposito, Massimiliano; Van Eylen, Vincent; Grziwa, Sascha; Goffo, Elisa; Huang, Chelsea X.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Karjalainen, Marie; Karjalainen, Raine; Knudstrup, Emil; Korth, Judith; Lam, Kristine W. F.; Latham, David W.; Levine, Alan M.; Osborne, H. L. M.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Redfield, Seth; Ricker, George R.; Seager, S.; Serrano, Luisa Maria; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Winn, Joshua N.--This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We report the discovery of two transiting planets around the bright (V = 9.9 mag) main-sequence F7 star TOI-1670 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TOI-1670 b is a sub-Neptune (${R}_{{\rm{b}}}={2.06}_{-0.15}^{+0.19}$ R⊕) on a 10.9 day orbit, and TOI-1670 c is a warm Jupiter (${R}_{{\rm{c}}}={0.987}_{-0.025}^{+0.025}$ RJup) on a 40.7 day orbit. Using radial velocity observations gathered with the Tull Coudé Spectrograph on the Harlan J. Smith telescope and HARPS-N on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, we find a planet mass of ${M}_{{\rm{c}}}={0.63}_{-0.08}^{+0.09}$ MJup for the outer warm Jupiter, implying a mean density of ${\rho }_{c}={0.81}_{-0.11}^{+0.13}$ g cm−3. The inner sub-Neptune is undetected in our radial velocity data (Mb < 0.13 MJup at the 99% confidence level). Multiplanet systems like TOI-1670 hosting an outer warm Jupiter on a nearly circular orbit (${e}_{{\rm{c}}}={0.09}_{-0.04}^{+0.05}$) and one or more inner coplanar planets are more consistent with "gentle" formation mechanisms such as disk migration or in situ formation rather than high-eccentricity migration. Of the 11 known systems with a warm Jupiter and a smaller inner companion, eight (73%) are near a low-order mean-motion resonance, which can be a signature of migration. TOI-1670 joins two other systems (27% of this subsample) with period commensurabilities greater than 3, a common feature of in situ formation or halted inward migration. TOI-1670 and the handful of similar systems support a diversity of formation pathways for warm Jupiters. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Q.H.T. and B.P.B. acknowledge support from a NASA FINESST grant (80NSSC20K1554). This work benefited from involvement in ExoExplorers, which is sponsored by the Exoplanets Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) and NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Office (ExEP). B.P.B. acknowledges support from National Science Foundation grant AST-1909209 and NASA Exoplanet Research Program grant 20-XRP20_2-0119. C.M.P. and M.F. gratefully acknowledge the support of the Swedish National Space Agency (DNR 65/19 and 177/19). J.K. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA; DNR 2020-00104). P.K., M.S., J.S., and R.K. acknowledge the financial support of Inter-transfer grant No. LTT-20015. M.K. acknowledges support from ESAs PEA4000127913. M.E. acknowledges the support of the DFG priority program SPP 1992 "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (HA 3279/12-1). Funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre is provided by the Danish National Research Foundation (grant agreement No. DNRF106). D.G. and L.M.S. gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Cassa di Risparmio di Torino (CRT) foundation under grant No. 2018.2323 "Gaseous or rocky? Unveiling the nature of small worlds." This work is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant No. JP20K14518 and SATELLITE Research from Astrobiology Center (AB022006). Funding for the TESS mission is provided by NASA's Science Mission Directorate. This research has made use of the Exoplanet Follow-up Observation Program website, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. We acknowledge the use of public TESS data from pipelines at the TESS Science Office and the TESS Science Processing Operations Center. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center for the production of the SPOC data products. This paper includes data collected by the TESS mission that are publicly available from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.