Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet

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Main Authors: Yee, Samuel W., Petigura, Erik A., Isaacson, Howard, Howard, Andrew W., Blunt, Sarah, Dalba, Paul A., Dai, Fei, Fulton, Benjamin J., Giacalone, Steven, Kane, Stephen R., Kosiarek, Molly, Mocnik, Teo, Rice, Malena, Rubenzahl, Ryan, Saunders, Nicholas, Tyler, Dakotah, Weiss, Lauren M., Zhang, Jingwen
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author Yee, Samuel W.
Petigura, Erik A.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Blunt, Sarah
Dalba, Paul A.
Dai, Fei
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Giacalone, Steven
Kane, Stephen R.
Kosiarek, Molly
Mocnik, Teo
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Saunders, Nicholas
Tyler, Dakotah
Weiss, Lauren M.
Zhang, Jingwen
author_facet Yee, Samuel W.
Petigura, Erik A.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Blunt, Sarah
Dalba, Paul A.
Dai, Fei
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Giacalone, Steven
Kane, Stephen R.
Kosiarek, Molly
Mocnik, Teo
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Saunders, Nicholas
Tyler, Dakotah
Weiss, Lauren M.
Zhang, Jingwen
contents In 2010, Bakos and collaborators discovered a Neptune-sized planet transiting the K-dwarf HAT-P-11 every five days. Later in 2018, Yee and collaborators reported an additional Jovian-mass companion on a nine year orbit based on a decade of Doppler monitoring. The eccentric outer giant HAT-P-11c may be responsible for the peculiar polar orbit of the inner planet HAT-P-11b. However, Basilicata et al. (2024) recently suggested that the HAT-P-11c Doppler signal could be caused by stellar activity. In this research note, we extend the Yee et al. (2018) Doppler time series by six years. The combined dataset spanning 17 years covers nearly two orbits of the outer planet. Importantly, we observe two periastron passages of planet c and do not observe a coherent activity signature. Together with the previously reported astrometric acceleration of HAT-P-11 from Hipparcos and Gaia, we believe there is strong evidence for HAT-P-11c as a bona fide planet.
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spellingShingle Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet
Yee, Samuel W.
Petigura, Erik A.
Isaacson, Howard
Howard, Andrew W.
Blunt, Sarah
Dalba, Paul A.
Dai, Fei
Fulton, Benjamin J.
Giacalone, Steven
Kane, Stephen R.
Kosiarek, Molly
Mocnik, Teo
Rice, Malena
Rubenzahl, Ryan
Saunders, Nicholas
Tyler, Dakotah
Weiss, Lauren M.
Zhang, Jingwen
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
In 2010, Bakos and collaborators discovered a Neptune-sized planet transiting the K-dwarf HAT-P-11 every five days. Later in 2018, Yee and collaborators reported an additional Jovian-mass companion on a nine year orbit based on a decade of Doppler monitoring. The eccentric outer giant HAT-P-11c may be responsible for the peculiar polar orbit of the inner planet HAT-P-11b. However, Basilicata et al. (2024) recently suggested that the HAT-P-11c Doppler signal could be caused by stellar activity. In this research note, we extend the Yee et al. (2018) Doppler time series by six years. The combined dataset spanning 17 years covers nearly two orbits of the outer planet. Importantly, we observe two periastron passages of planet c and do not observe a coherent activity signature. Together with the previously reported astrometric acceleration of HAT-P-11 from Hipparcos and Gaia, we believe there is strong evidence for HAT-P-11c as a bona fide planet.
title Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11109