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author Pidhorodetska, Daria
Gilbert, Emily A.
Kane, Stephen R.
Barclay, Thomas
Polanski, Alex S.
Hill, Michelle L.
Stassun, Keivan G.
Giacalone, Steven
Ciardi, David R.
Boyle, Andrew W.
Howell, Steve B.
Lillo-Box, Jorge
MacDougall, Mason G.
Fetherolf, Tara
Batalha, Natalie M.
Crossfield, Ian J. M.
Dressing, Courtney
Fulton, Benjamin
Howard, Andrew W.
Huber, Daniel
Isaacson, Howard
Petigura, Erik A.
Robertson, Paul
Weiss, Lauren M.
Angelo, Isabel
Beard, Corey
Behmard, Aida
Blunt, Sarah
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Dai, Fei
Dalba, Paul A.
Holcomb, Rae
Lubin, Jack
Mayo, Andrew W.
Murphy, Joseph M. Akana
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Scarsdale, Nicholas
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
Schwieterman, Edward W.
author_facet Pidhorodetska, Daria
Gilbert, Emily A.
Kane, Stephen R.
Barclay, Thomas
Polanski, Alex S.
Hill, Michelle L.
Stassun, Keivan G.
Giacalone, Steven
Ciardi, David R.
Boyle, Andrew W.
Howell, Steve B.
Lillo-Box, Jorge
MacDougall, Mason G.
Fetherolf, Tara
Batalha, Natalie M.
Crossfield, Ian J. M.
Dressing, Courtney
Fulton, Benjamin
Howard, Andrew W.
Huber, Daniel
Isaacson, Howard
Petigura, Erik A.
Robertson, Paul
Weiss, Lauren M.
Angelo, Isabel
Beard, Corey
Behmard, Aida
Blunt, Sarah
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Dai, Fei
Dalba, Paul A.
Holcomb, Rae
Lubin, Jack
Mayo, Andrew W.
Murphy, Joseph M. Akana
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Scarsdale, Nicholas
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
Schwieterman, Edward W.
contents Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a dramatic diversity of planet sizes across a vast array of orbital architectures. Sub-Neptunes are of particular interest; due to their absence in our own solar system, we rely on demographics of exoplanets to better understand their bulk composition and formation scenarios. Here, we present the discovery and characterization of TOI-1437 b, a sub-Neptune with a 18.84 day orbit around a near-Solar analog (Mstar = 1.10 +/- 0.10 Msun, Rstar = 1.17 +/- 0.12 Rsun). The planet was detected using photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and radial velocity follow-up observations were carried out as a part of the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) using both the HIRES instrument at Keck Observatory and the Levy Spectrograph on the Automated Planet Finder (APF) telescope. A combined analysis of these data reveal a planet radius of Rp = 2.24 +/- 0.23 Rearth and a mass measurement of Mp = 9.6 +/- 3.9 Mearth). TOI-1437 b is one of few (~50) known transiting sub-Neptunes orbiting a solar-mass star that has a radial velocity mass measurement. As the formation pathway of these worlds remains an unanswered question, the precise mass characterization of TOI-1437 b may provide further insight into this class of planet.
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spellingShingle The TESS-Keck Survey. XXII. A sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1437
Pidhorodetska, Daria
Gilbert, Emily A.
Kane, Stephen R.
Barclay, Thomas
Polanski, Alex S.
Hill, Michelle L.
Stassun, Keivan G.
Giacalone, Steven
Ciardi, David R.
Boyle, Andrew W.
Howell, Steve B.
Lillo-Box, Jorge
MacDougall, Mason G.
Fetherolf, Tara
Batalha, Natalie M.
Crossfield, Ian J. M.
Dressing, Courtney
Fulton, Benjamin
Howard, Andrew W.
Huber, Daniel
Isaacson, Howard
Petigura, Erik A.
Robertson, Paul
Weiss, Lauren M.
Angelo, Isabel
Beard, Corey
Behmard, Aida
Blunt, Sarah
Brinkman, Casey L.
Chontos, Ashley
Dai, Fei
Dalba, Paul A.
Holcomb, Rae
Lubin, Jack
Mayo, Andrew W.
Murphy, Joseph M. Akana
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Scarsdale, Nicholas
Turtelboom, Emma V.
Tyler, Dakotah
Van Zandt, Judah
Schwieterman, Edward W.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a dramatic diversity of planet sizes across a vast array of orbital architectures. Sub-Neptunes are of particular interest; due to their absence in our own solar system, we rely on demographics of exoplanets to better understand their bulk composition and formation scenarios. Here, we present the discovery and characterization of TOI-1437 b, a sub-Neptune with a 18.84 day orbit around a near-Solar analog (Mstar = 1.10 +/- 0.10 Msun, Rstar = 1.17 +/- 0.12 Rsun). The planet was detected using photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and radial velocity follow-up observations were carried out as a part of the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) using both the HIRES instrument at Keck Observatory and the Levy Spectrograph on the Automated Planet Finder (APF) telescope. A combined analysis of these data reveal a planet radius of Rp = 2.24 +/- 0.23 Rearth and a mass measurement of Mp = 9.6 +/- 3.9 Mearth). TOI-1437 b is one of few (~50) known transiting sub-Neptunes orbiting a solar-mass star that has a radial velocity mass measurement. As the formation pathway of these worlds remains an unanswered question, the precise mass characterization of TOI-1437 b may provide further insight into this class of planet.
title The TESS-Keck Survey. XXII. A sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1437
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12448