TOI-1268b: The youngest hot Saturn-mass transiting exoplanet
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Published:2022-06
Issue:
Volume:662
Page:A107
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ISSN:0004-6361
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Container-title:Astronomy & Astrophysics
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language:
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Short-container-title:A&A
Author:
Šubjak J.ORCID, Endl M., Chaturvedi P., Karjalainen R., Cochran W. D., Esposito M., Gandolfi D., Lam K. W. F., Stassun K., Žák J., Lodieu N., Boffin H. M. J., MacQueen P. J., Hatzes A., Guenther E. W., Georgieva I., Grziwa S., Schmerling H., Skarka M., Blažek M., Karjalainen M., Špoková M., Isaacson H., Howard A. W., Burke C. J., Van Eylen V., Falk B., Fridlund M., Goffo E., Jenkins J. M., Korth J., Lissauer J. J., Livingston J. H., Luque R., Muresan A., Osborn H. P., Pallé E., Persson C. M., Redfield S., Ricker G. R., Seager S., Serrano L. M., Smith A. M. S., Kabáth P.
Abstract
We report the discovery of TOI-1268b, a transiting Saturn-mass planet from the TESS space mission. With an age of less than 1 Gyr, derived from various age indicators, TOI-1268b is the youngest Saturn-mass planet known to date; it contributes to the small sample of well-characterised young planets. It has an orbital period of P = 8.1577080 ± 0.0000044 days, and transits an early K-dwarf star with a mass of M* = 0.96 ± 0.04 M⊙, a radius of R* = 0.92 ± 0.06 R⊙, an effective temperature of Teff = 5300 ± 100 K, and a metallicity of 0.36 ± 0.06 dex. By combining TESS photometry with high-resolution spectra acquired with the Tull spectrograph at the McDonald Observatory, and the high-resolution spectrographs at the Tautenburg and Ondřejov Observatories, we measured a planetary mass of Mp = 96.4 ± 8.3 M⊕ and a radius of Rp = 9.1 ± 0.6 R⊕. TOI-1268 is an ideal system for studying the role of star-planet tidal interactions for non-inflated Saturn-mass planets. We used system parameters derived in this paper to constrain the planet’s tidal quality factor to the range of 104.5–5.3. When compared with the sample of other non-inflated Saturn-mass planets, TOI-1268b is one of the best candidates for transmission spectroscopy studies.
Funder
MSMT CR ERASMUS+ Grant Agency of Charles University Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional Swedish National Space Agency JSPS KAKENHI Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CRT foundation Centre of Excellence "Severo Ochoa" award
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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