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author Barkaoui, Khalid
Pozuelos, Francisco J.
Rackham, Benjamin V.
Burgasser, Adam J.
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
Serra-Ricart, Miquel
Timmermans, Mathilde
Yalçınkaya, Selçuk.
Soubkiou, Abderahmane
Stassun, Keivan G.
Collins, Karen A.
Amado, Pedro J.
Baştürk, Özgur
Burdanov, Artem
Davis, Yasmin T.
de Wit, Julien
Demory, Brice-Olivier
Deveny, Sarah
Dransfield, Georgina
Ducrot, Elsa
Gillon, Michaël
Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo
Hooton, Matthew J.
Horne, Keith
Howell, Steve B.
Muñoz, Clàudia Janó
Jehin, Emmanuel
Jenkins, John M.
Littlefield, Colin
Martín, Eduardo L.
Niraula, Prajwal
Pedersen, Peter P.
Queloz, Dedier
Scott, Madison G.
Sefako, Ramotholo
Shporer, Avi
Stockdale, Christopher
Softich, Emma
Sota, Alfredo
Tofflemire, Benjamin
Şimşir, Özlem
Varas, Roberto
Lang, Francis Zong
Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián S.
author_facet Barkaoui, Khalid
Pozuelos, Francisco J.
Rackham, Benjamin V.
Burgasser, Adam J.
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
Serra-Ricart, Miquel
Timmermans, Mathilde
Yalçınkaya, Selçuk.
Soubkiou, Abderahmane
Stassun, Keivan G.
Collins, Karen A.
Amado, Pedro J.
Baştürk, Özgur
Burdanov, Artem
Davis, Yasmin T.
de Wit, Julien
Demory, Brice-Olivier
Deveny, Sarah
Dransfield, Georgina
Ducrot, Elsa
Gillon, Michaël
Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo
Hooton, Matthew J.
Horne, Keith
Howell, Steve B.
Muñoz, Clàudia Janó
Jehin, Emmanuel
Jenkins, John M.
Littlefield, Colin
Martín, Eduardo L.
Niraula, Prajwal
Pedersen, Peter P.
Queloz, Dedier
Scott, Madison G.
Sefako, Ramotholo
Shporer, Avi
Stockdale, Christopher
Softich, Emma
Sota, Alfredo
Tofflemire, Benjamin
Şimşir, Özlem
Varas, Roberto
Lang, Francis Zong
Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián S.
contents We present the discovery and validation of TOI-7166b, a 2.01+/-0.05R_Earth planet orbiting a nearby low-mass star. We validated the planet by combining TESS and multi-color high-precision photometric observations from ground-based telescopes, together with spectroscopic data, high-contrast imaging, archival images, and statistical arguments. The host star is an M4-type dwarf at a distance of ~35 pc from the Sun. It has a mass and a radius of Ms=0.190+/-0.004M_Sun and Rs=0.222+/-0.005R_Sun, respectively. TOI-7166b has an orbital period of 12.9 days, which places it close to the inner edge of the Habitable Zone of its host star, receiving an insolation flux of Sp=1.07+/-0.08S_Earth and an equilibrium temperature of Teq=249+/-5K (assuming a null Bond albedo). The brightness of the host star makes TOI-7166 a suitable target for radial velocity follow-up to measure the planetary mass and bulk density. Moreover, the physical parameters of the system including the infrared brightness (Kmag = 10.6) of the star and the planet-to-star radius ratio (0.0823+/-0.0012) make TOI-7166b an exquisite target for transmission spectroscopic observations with the JWST, to constrain the exoplanet atmospheric compositions.
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spellingShingle TOI-7166 b: A Habitable Zone mini-Neptune planet around a nearby low-mass star
Barkaoui, Khalid
Pozuelos, Francisco J.
Rackham, Benjamin V.
Burgasser, Adam J.
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
Serra-Ricart, Miquel
Timmermans, Mathilde
Yalçınkaya, Selçuk.
Soubkiou, Abderahmane
Stassun, Keivan G.
Collins, Karen A.
Amado, Pedro J.
Baştürk, Özgur
Burdanov, Artem
Davis, Yasmin T.
de Wit, Julien
Demory, Brice-Olivier
Deveny, Sarah
Dransfield, Georgina
Ducrot, Elsa
Gillon, Michaël
Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo
Hooton, Matthew J.
Horne, Keith
Howell, Steve B.
Muñoz, Clàudia Janó
Jehin, Emmanuel
Jenkins, John M.
Littlefield, Colin
Martín, Eduardo L.
Niraula, Prajwal
Pedersen, Peter P.
Queloz, Dedier
Scott, Madison G.
Sefako, Ramotholo
Shporer, Avi
Stockdale, Christopher
Softich, Emma
Sota, Alfredo
Tofflemire, Benjamin
Şimşir, Özlem
Varas, Roberto
Lang, Francis Zong
Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián S.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
We present the discovery and validation of TOI-7166b, a 2.01+/-0.05R_Earth planet orbiting a nearby low-mass star. We validated the planet by combining TESS and multi-color high-precision photometric observations from ground-based telescopes, together with spectroscopic data, high-contrast imaging, archival images, and statistical arguments. The host star is an M4-type dwarf at a distance of ~35 pc from the Sun. It has a mass and a radius of Ms=0.190+/-0.004M_Sun and Rs=0.222+/-0.005R_Sun, respectively. TOI-7166b has an orbital period of 12.9 days, which places it close to the inner edge of the Habitable Zone of its host star, receiving an insolation flux of Sp=1.07+/-0.08S_Earth and an equilibrium temperature of Teq=249+/-5K (assuming a null Bond albedo). The brightness of the host star makes TOI-7166 a suitable target for radial velocity follow-up to measure the planetary mass and bulk density. Moreover, the physical parameters of the system including the infrared brightness (Kmag = 10.6) of the star and the planet-to-star radius ratio (0.0823+/-0.0012) make TOI-7166b an exquisite target for transmission spectroscopic observations with the JWST, to constrain the exoplanet atmospheric compositions.
title TOI-7166 b: A Habitable Zone mini-Neptune planet around a nearby low-mass star
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06841