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The Longest-period Young Transiting Exoplanets. A Duo of Puffy Giants inside a Debris Disk

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2026-07-02 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We identify two large-radius planets around the F-type star HD 114082 as the longest-period young transiting exoplanets known. From the first transit, detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and a second dip, spotted by the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), we predicted mid-transit times for HD 114082 b (planet b). We pinpoint its orbit (period Pb= 225.5504±\pm0.0004 days) from a third transit captured with the ESA's CHaracterising ExOplanet Satellite and the upgraded Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescope (ASTEP+), alongside orbit-discriminating observations. Another dimming partly covered by ASTEP+ completes the four-transit series. We support with dynamical evidence the planetary nature of a deeper transit detected with TESS and NGTS, identifying planet c. Additionally, we reexamine the debris disk, fitting its excess emission with two dust components. Fundamental stellar parameters are inferred from stellar evolution models, while a joint modeling of photometric and radial-velocity time series yields the planetary parameters, with masses further constrained using an N-body code. For planet b, the semimajor axis ab_b= 0.791±\pm0.008 au, eccentricity eb\approx 0, inclination ib= 89.791±\pm0.014 degrees, radius Rb= 1.046±\pm0.014 RJ_J, and 95 % confidence upper limit on its mass M95%,b_{95\%,b}= 1.6 MJ_J. For planet c, ac_c= 0.990.04+0.03^{+0.03}_{-0.04} au, ec\approx 0, ic_c= 89.701±\pm0.011 degrees, Rc_c= 1.36±\pm0.03 RJ_J, and M95%,c_{95\%,c}= 2.0 MJ_J (0.24 MJ_J if adding transit timing variation constrains). They seem to be moderate-to-low-mass giants in nearly resonant, coplanar, circular orbits that formed in situ, or beyond the snowline, and migrated inwards, shaping the disk.

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@article{arxiv.2607.02685,
  title  = {The Longest-period Young Transiting Exoplanets. A Duo of Puffy Giants inside a Debris Disk},
  author = {Carlos del Burgo and Alejandro Suárez Mascareño and Ana Heras Pastor and Jonathan P. Marshall and Peter J. Wheatley and Edward M. Bryant and Samuel Gill and Jorge Fernández Fernández and David R. Anderson and Matthew P. Battley and Edward Gillen and Solène Ulmer-Moll and James McCormac and Monika Lendl and Ioannis Apergis and Faith Hawthorn and James S. Jenkins and Maximiliano Moyano and Louise D. Nielsen and Alexis M. S. Smith and Suman Saha and Stéphane Udry and Jose I. Vines and Richard G. West and Daniel Bayliss and Hugh P. Osborn and Tristan Guillot and Amaury H. M. J. Triaud and Olga Suarez and Matteo Beltrame and Abdelkrim Agabi and Isabella Pagano and Matthew J. Hooton and Matthew R. Burleigh and Lyu Abe and Philippe Bendjoya and Georgina Dransfield and Djamel Mékarnia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02685},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters