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TOI 122b and TOI 237b: Two Small Warm Planets Orbiting Inactive M Dwarfs Found by TESS

  • William C. Waalkes
  • , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson
  • , Karen A. Collins
  • , Adina D. Feinstein
  • , Benjamin M. Tofflemire
  • , Bárbara Rojas-Ayala
  • , Michele L. Silverstein
  • , Elisabeth Newton
  • , George R. Ricker
  • , Roland Vanderspek
  • , David W. Latham
  • , S. Seager
  • , Joshua N. Winn
  • , Jon M. Jenkins
  • , Jessie Christiansen
  • , Robert F. Goeke
  • , Alan M. Levine
  • , H. P. Osborn
  • , S. A. Rinehart
  • , Mark E. Rose
  • Eric B. Ting, Joseph D. Twicken, Khalid Barkaoui, Jacob L. Bean, César Briceo, David R. Ciardi, Kevin I. Collins, Dennis Conti, Tianjun Gan, Michaël Gillon, Giovanni Isopi, Emmanuël Jehin, Eric L.N. Jensen, John F. Kielkopf, Nicholas Law, Franco Mallia, Andrew W. Mann, Benjamin T. Montet, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Howard Relles, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Carl Ziegler
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • RECONS Institute
  • Dartmouth College
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Princeton University
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of Bern
  • NASA HQ
  • SETI Institute
  • Université de Li ge
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
  • George Mason University
  • American Association of Variable Star Observers
  • Tsinghua University
  • Regione Lazio
  • Swarthmore College
  • University of Louisville
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Toronto

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Resumen

We report the discovery and validation of TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two warm planets transiting inactive M dwarfs observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Our analysis shows that TOI 122b has a radius of 2.72 ± 0.18 R ⊕ and receives 8.8 ± 1.0 times Earth's bolometric insolation, and TOI 237b has a radius of 1.44±0.12 R ⊕ and receives 3.7 ± 0.5 times Earth's insolation, straddling the 6.7 Earth insolation that Mercury receives from the Sun. This makes these two of the cooler planets yet discovered by TESS, even on their 5.08 and 5.43 day orbits. Together, they span the small-planet radius valley, providing useful laboratories for exploring volatile evolution around M dwarfs. Their relatively nearby distances (62.23 ± 0.21 pc and 38.11 ± 0.23 pc, respectively) make them potentially feasible targets for future radial velocity follow-up and atmospheric characterization, although such observations may require substantial investments of time on large telescopes.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo13
PublicaciónAstronomical Journal
Volumen161
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublicada - ene 2021

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