The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory

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Hauptverfasser: Weiss, Lauren M., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Fulton, Benjamin J., Fabrycky, Daniel, Jontof-Hutter, Daniel, Steffen, Jason H., Schlichting, Hilke E., Beard, Corey, Brinkman, Casey L., Chontos, Ashley, Giacalone, Steven, Hill, Michelle, Kosiarek, Molly R., MacDougall, Mason G., Močnik, Teo, Polanski, Alex S., Turtelboom, Emma V., Tyler, Dakotah, Van Zandt, Judah
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author Weiss, Lauren M.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Fabrycky, Daniel
Jontof-Hutter, Daniel
Steffen, Jason H.
Schlichting, Hilke E.
Beard, Corey
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Giacalone, Steven
Hill, Michelle
Kosiarek, Molly R.
MacDougall, Mason G.
Močnik, Teo
Polanski, Alex S.
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
author_facet Weiss, Lauren M.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Fabrycky, Daniel
Jontof-Hutter, Daniel
Steffen, Jason H.
Schlichting, Hilke E.
Beard, Corey
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Giacalone, Steven
Hill, Michelle
Kosiarek, Molly R.
MacDougall, Mason G.
Močnik, Teo
Polanski, Alex S.
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
contents Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate with the architectural properties of close-in, sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets. This is largely because transit surveys are particularly insensitive to planets at orbital separations >1 au, and so their census of Jupiter-like planets is incomplete, inhibiting our study of the relationship between Jupiter-like planets and the small planets that do transit. To investigate the relationship between close-in, small and distant, giant planets, we conducted the Kepler Giant Planet Survey (KGPS). Using the W. M. Keck Observatory High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, we spent over a decade collecting 2844 radial velocities (RVs; 2167 of which are presented here for the first time) of 63 Sunlike stars that host 157 transiting planets. We had no prior knowledge of which systems would contain giant planets beyond 1 au, making this survey unbiased with respect to previously detected Jovians. We announce RV-detected companions to 20 stars from our sample. These include 13 Jovians (0.3 MJ < M sin i < 13 MJ, 1 au < a < 10 au), eight nontransiting sub-Saturns, and three stellar-mass companions. We also present updated masses and densities of 84 transiting planets. The KGPS project leverages one of the longest-running and most data-rich collections of RVs of the NASA Kepler systems yet, and it will provide a basis for addressing whether giant planets help or hinder the growth of sub-Neptune-sized and terrestrial planets. Future KGPS papers will examine the relationship between small, transiting planets and their long-period companions.
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spellingShingle The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
Weiss, Lauren M.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Fabrycky, Daniel
Jontof-Hutter, Daniel
Steffen, Jason H.
Schlichting, Hilke E.
Beard, Corey
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Giacalone, Steven
Hill, Michelle
Kosiarek, Molly R.
MacDougall, Mason G.
Močnik, Teo
Polanski, Alex S.
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Despite the importance of Jupiter and Saturn to Earth's formation and habitability, there has not yet been a comprehensive observational study of how giant exoplanets correlate with the architectural properties of close-in, sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets. This is largely because transit surveys are particularly insensitive to planets at orbital separations >1 au, and so their census of Jupiter-like planets is incomplete, inhibiting our study of the relationship between Jupiter-like planets and the small planets that do transit. To investigate the relationship between close-in, small and distant, giant planets, we conducted the Kepler Giant Planet Survey (KGPS). Using the W. M. Keck Observatory High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, we spent over a decade collecting 2844 radial velocities (RVs; 2167 of which are presented here for the first time) of 63 Sunlike stars that host 157 transiting planets. We had no prior knowledge of which systems would contain giant planets beyond 1 au, making this survey unbiased with respect to previously detected Jovians. We announce RV-detected companions to 20 stars from our sample. These include 13 Jovians (0.3 MJ < M sin i < 13 MJ, 1 au < a < 10 au), eight nontransiting sub-Saturns, and three stellar-mass companions. We also present updated masses and densities of 84 transiting planets. The KGPS project leverages one of the longest-running and most data-rich collections of RVs of the NASA Kepler systems yet, and it will provide a basis for addressing whether giant planets help or hinder the growth of sub-Neptune-sized and terrestrial planets. Future KGPS papers will examine the relationship between small, transiting planets and their long-period companions.
title The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00071