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Two Bright M Dwarfs Hosting Ultra-Short-Period Super-Earths with Earth-like Compositions*

Authors :
Akihiko Fukui
David Lafrenière
Martin Paegert
Jun Nishikawa
Hiroki Harakawa
Teruyuki Hirano
Thomas Barclay
Sara Seager
Peter Tenenbaum
Enric Palle
Shane Jacobson
Noriharu Watanabe
Bob Massey
C. E. Brasseur
George R. Ricker
Richard P. Schwarz
David W. Latham
Klaus W. Hodapp
Naho Fujita
Keisuke Isogai
Mayuko Mori
Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa
Tadahiro Kimura
Samuel N. Quinn
Keivan G. Stassun
Sébastien Vievard
Charles Cadieux
Takayuki Kotani
Tomoyuki Kudo
Takashi Kurokawa
Y. Terada
Joshua N. Winn
Andrew Vanderburg
David R. Ciardi
Allyson Bieryla
Karen A. Collins
Akifumi Nakayama
Jerome de Leon
Norio Narita
K. Kawauchi
Masayuki Kuzuhara
Yasunori Hori
René Doyon
Eric L. N. Jensen
E. Esparza-Borges
Masashi Omiya
Taku Nishiumi
Jon M. Jenkins
John P. Doty
Hannu Parviainen
Motohide Tamura
Erica J. Gonzales
Eric Gaidos
Kohei Miyakawa
Gilbert A. Esquerdo
Felipe Murgas
Nobuhiko Kusakabe
Steve B. Howell
John H. Livingston
S. Kurita
Elise Furlan
Masahiro Ikoma
Roland Vanderspek
Source :
The Astronomical Journal. 162:161
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2021.

Abstract

We present observations of two bright M dwarfs (TOI-1634 and TOI-1685: $J=9.5-9.6$) hosting ultra-short period (USP) planets, identified by the TESS mission. The two stars are similar in temperature, mass, and radius ($T_\mathrm{eff}\,\approx\,3500$ K, $M_\star\,\approx\,0.45-0.46\,M_\odot$, and $R_\star\approx 0.45-0.46\,R_\odot$), and the planets are both super-Earth-sized ($1.25\,R_\oplus<br />Comment: 29 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables; AJ in press

Details

ISSN :
15383881 and 00046256
Volume :
162
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Astronomical Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ae9cd9271f2f6c9ece2e37a08bd03a5e
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0fdc