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HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-12-16 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present confirmation of HD 143811 AB b, a substellar companion to spectroscopic binary HD 143811 AB through direct imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and Keck NIRC2. HD 143811 AB was observed as a part of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) in 2016 and 2019 and is a member of the Sco-Cen star formation region. The exoplanet is detected 430\sim 430 mas from the host star by GPI. With two GPI epochs and one from Keck/NIRC2 in 2022, we confirm through common proper motion analysis that the object is bound to its host star. We derive an orbit with a semi-major axis of 6414+3264 ^{+32}_{-14} au and eccentricity 0.230.16+0.24{0.23 ^{+0.24}_{-0.16}}. Spectral analysis of the GPI HH-band spectrum and NIRC2 \textit{L'} photometry provides additional proof that this object is a substellar companion. We compare the spectrum of HD 143811 AB b to PHOENIX stellar models and Exo-REM exoplanet atmosphere models and find that Exo-REM models provide the best fits to the data. From the Exo-REM models, we derive an effective temperature of 1042132+1781042^{+178}_{-132} K for the planet and translate the derived luminosity of the planet to a mass of 5.6±1.1 MJup5.6 \pm 1.1~M_\textrm{Jup} assuming hot-start evolutionary models. HD 143811 AB b is the first directly imaged planet around a binary that is not on an ultra-wide orbit. Future characterization of this object will shed light on the formation of planets around binary star systems.

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@article{arxiv.2509.06729,
  title  = {HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen},
  author = {Nathalie K. Jones and Jason J. Wang and Eric L. Nielsen and Robert J. De Rosa and Anne E. Peck and William Roberson and Jean-Baptiste Ruffio and Jerry W. Xuan and Bruce A. Macintosh and S. Mark Ammons and Vanessa P. Bailey and Travis S. Barman and Joanna Bulger and Eugene Chiang and Jeffrey K. Chilcote and Gaspard Duchêne and Thomas M. Esposito and Michael P. Fitzgerald and Katherine B. Follette and Stephen Goodsell and James R. Graham and Alexandra Z. Greenbaum and Pascale Hibon and Patrick Ingraham and Paul Kalas and Quinn M. Konopacky and Michael C. Liu and Franck Marchis and Jérôme Maire and Christian Marois and Brenda Matthews and Dimitri Mawet and Stanimir Metchev and Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer and Rebecca Oppenheimer and David W. Palmer and Jenny Patience and Marshall D. Perrin and Lisa Poyneer and Laurent Pueyo and Abhijith Rajan and Julian Rameau and Fredrik T. Rantakyrö and Bin Ren and Aniket Sanghi and Dmitry Savransky and Adam C. Schneider and Anand Sivaramakrishnan and Adam J. R. W. Smith and Inseok Song and Remi Sommer and Sandrine Thomas and Kimberly Ward-Duong and Schuyler G. Wolff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06729},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; Updated with publication version