We report the discovery of HD 110113 b (TOI-755.01), a transiting mini-Neptune exoplanet on a 2.5-day orbit around the solar-analogue HD 110113 (Teff = 5730K). Using TESS photometry and HARPS radial velocities gathered by the NCORES program, we find HD 110113 b has a radius of 2.05±0.12R⊕ and a mass of 4.55±0.62M⊕. The resulting density of 2.90−0.59+0.75 g cm^{-3} is significantly lower than would be expected from a pure-rock world; therefore, HD 110113 b must be a mini-Neptune with a significant volatile atmosphere. The high incident flux places it within the so-called radius valley; however, HD 110113 b was able to hold onto a substantial (0.1-1\%) H-He atmosphere over its ∼4 Gyr lifetime. Through a novel simultaneous gaussian process fit to multiple activity indicators, we were also able to fit for the strong stellar rotation signal with period 20.8±1.2 d from the RVs and confirm an additional non-transiting planet with a mass of 10.5±1.2M⊕ and a period of 6.744−0.009+0.008 d.
@article{arxiv.2101.04745,
title = {A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113},
author = {H. P. Osborn and D. J. Armstrong and L. D. Nielsen and Karen A. Collins and V. Adibekyan and E. Delgado-Mena and G. W. King and J. F. Otegi and N. C. Santos and S. B. Howell and J. Lillo-Box and C. Ziegler and Coel Hellier and C. Briceño and N. Law and A. W. Mann and N. Scott and G. Ricker and R. Vanderspek and David W. Latham and S. Seager and J. N. Winn and Jon M. Jenkins and Diana Dragomir and Dana R. Louie and Benjamin V. Rackham and Joel Villaseñor and Chris Burke and Tansu Daylan and Ares Osborn and D. Barrado and Dennis M. Conti and Eric L. N. Jensen and S. G. Sousa and S. Hoyer and D. A. Caldwell and Jeffrey C. Smith and David R. Rodriguez and Olivier D. S. Demangeon and Daniel Bayliss and Keivan G. Stassun and Susana C. C. Barros and Edward M. Bryant and D. J. A. Brown and P. Figueira and D. R. Anderson and R. West and F. Bouchy and S. Udry and Peter J. Wheatley and R. F. Díaz and D. L. Pollacco and M. Deleuil and C. Dorn and R. Helled and Paul Strøm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04745},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
17 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication at MNRAS. HARPS RVs available at https://dace.unige.ch/radialVelocities/?pattern=HD110113