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| author | García-Mejía, Juliana de Beurs, Zoë L. Tamburo, Patrick Vanderburg, Andrew Charbonneau, David Collins, Karen A. Barkaoui, Khalid Watkins, Cristilyn N. Stockdale, Chris Schwarz, Richard P. Forés-Toribio, Raquel Muñoz, Jose A. Isopi, Giovanni Mallia, Franco Zapparata, Aldo Popowicz, Adam Brudny, Andrzej Agol, Eric Alam, Munazza K. Benkhaldoun, Zouhair Emmanuel, Jehin Ghachoui, Mourad Gillon, Michaël Horne, Keith Pallé, Enric Sefako, Ramotholo Shporer, Avi Timmermans, Mathilde |
| author_facet | García-Mejía, Juliana de Beurs, Zoë L. Tamburo, Patrick Vanderburg, Andrew Charbonneau, David Collins, Karen A. Barkaoui, Khalid Watkins, Cristilyn N. Stockdale, Chris Schwarz, Richard P. Forés-Toribio, Raquel Muñoz, Jose A. Isopi, Giovanni Mallia, Franco Zapparata, Aldo Popowicz, Adam Brudny, Andrzej Agol, Eric Alam, Munazza K. Benkhaldoun, Zouhair Emmanuel, Jehin Ghachoui, Mourad Gillon, Michaël Horne, Keith Pallé, Enric Sefako, Ramotholo Shporer, Avi Timmermans, Mathilde |
| contents | We present a ground-based transit detection of HIP 41378 f, a long-period ($P = 542$ days), extremely low-density ($0.09 \pm 0.02$ g cm$^{-3}$) giant exoplanet in a dynamically complex system. Using photometry from Tierras, TRAPPIST-North, and multiple LCOGT sites, we constrain the transit center time to $T_{C,6} = 2460438.891 \pm 0.052$ BJD TDB. This marks only the second ground-based detection of HIP 41378 f, currently the longest-period and longest-duration transiting exoplanet observed from the ground. We use this new detection, along with a recently published transit time from Rossiter-McLaughlin observations, to update the TTV solution for HIP 41378 f. We predict the next two transits will occur at $T_{C,7} = 2460980.793^{+0.098}_{-0.129}$ BJD TDB (2025 November 1) and $T_{C,8} = 2461522.653^{+0.213}_{-0.238}$ BJD TDB (2027 April 27). Incorporating new TESS Sector 88 data, we also rule out the 101-day orbital period alias for HIP 41378 d, and find that the remaining viable solutions are centered on the 278, 371, and 1113-day aliases. The latter two imply dynamical configurations that challenge the canonical view of planet e as the dominant perturber of planet f. Our results suggest that HIP 41378 d may instead play the leading role in shaping the TTV of HIP 41378 f. |
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| spellingShingle | A Ground-Based Transit Observation of the Long-Period Extremely Low-Density Planet HIP 41378 f García-Mejía, Juliana de Beurs, Zoë L. Tamburo, Patrick Vanderburg, Andrew Charbonneau, David Collins, Karen A. Barkaoui, Khalid Watkins, Cristilyn N. Stockdale, Chris Schwarz, Richard P. Forés-Toribio, Raquel Muñoz, Jose A. Isopi, Giovanni Mallia, Franco Zapparata, Aldo Popowicz, Adam Brudny, Andrzej Agol, Eric Alam, Munazza K. Benkhaldoun, Zouhair Emmanuel, Jehin Ghachoui, Mourad Gillon, Michaël Horne, Keith Pallé, Enric Sefako, Ramotholo Shporer, Avi Timmermans, Mathilde Earth and Planetary Astrophysics We present a ground-based transit detection of HIP 41378 f, a long-period ($P = 542$ days), extremely low-density ($0.09 \pm 0.02$ g cm$^{-3}$) giant exoplanet in a dynamically complex system. Using photometry from Tierras, TRAPPIST-North, and multiple LCOGT sites, we constrain the transit center time to $T_{C,6} = 2460438.891 \pm 0.052$ BJD TDB. This marks only the second ground-based detection of HIP 41378 f, currently the longest-period and longest-duration transiting exoplanet observed from the ground. We use this new detection, along with a recently published transit time from Rossiter-McLaughlin observations, to update the TTV solution for HIP 41378 f. We predict the next two transits will occur at $T_{C,7} = 2460980.793^{+0.098}_{-0.129}$ BJD TDB (2025 November 1) and $T_{C,8} = 2461522.653^{+0.213}_{-0.238}$ BJD TDB (2027 April 27). Incorporating new TESS Sector 88 data, we also rule out the 101-day orbital period alias for HIP 41378 d, and find that the remaining viable solutions are centered on the 278, 371, and 1113-day aliases. The latter two imply dynamical configurations that challenge the canonical view of planet e as the dominant perturber of planet f. Our results suggest that HIP 41378 d may instead play the leading role in shaping the TTV of HIP 41378 f. |
| title | A Ground-Based Transit Observation of the Long-Period Extremely Low-Density Planet HIP 41378 f |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907 |