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Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-12-22 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We report the discovery of two short-period massive giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Both systems, TOI-558 (TIC 207110080) and TOI-559 (TIC 209459275), were identified from the 30-minute cadence Full Frame Images and confirmed using ground-based photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations from TESS's Follow-up Observing Program Working Group. We find that TOI-558 b, which transits an F-dwarf (M=1.3490.065+0.064 MM_{*}=1.349^{+0.064}_{-0.065}\ M_{\odot}, R=1.4960.040+0.042 RR_{*}=1.496^{+0.042}_{-0.040}\ R_{\odot}, Teff=646693+95 KT_{eff}=6466^{+95}_{-93}\ K, age 1.790.73+0.91 Gyr1.79^{+0.91}_{-0.73}\ Gyr) with an orbital period of 14.574 days, has a mass of 3.61±0.15 MJ3.61\pm0.15\ M_{\rm J}, a radius of 1.0860.038+0.041 RJ1.086^{+0.041}_{-0.038}\ R_{\rm J}, and an eccentric (e=0.3000.020+0.0220.300^{+0.022}_{-0.020}) orbit. TOI-559 b transits a G-dwarf (M=1.026±0.057 MM_{*}=1.026\pm0.057\ M_{\odot}, R=1.2330.026+0.028 RR_{*}=1.233^{+0.028}_{-0.026}\ R_{\odot}, Teff=592576+85 KT_{eff}=5925^{+85}_{-76}\ K, age 6.82.0+2.5 Gyr6.8^{+2.5}_{-2.0}\ Gyr) in an eccentric (e=0.151±0.0110.151\pm0.011) 6.984-day orbit with a mass of 6.010.23+0.24 MJ6.01^{+0.24}_{-0.23}\ M_{\rm J} and a radius of 1.0910.025+0.028 RJ1.091^{+0.028}_{-0.025}\ R_{\rm J}. Our spectroscopic follow-up also reveals a long-term radial velocity trend for TOI-559, indicating a long-period companion. The statistically significant orbital eccentricity measured for each system suggests that these planets migrated to their current location through dynamical interactions. Interestingly, both planets are also massive (>3 MJ>3\ M_{\rm J}), adding to the population of massive giant planets identified by TESS. Prompted by these new detections of high-mass planets, we analyzed the known mass distribution of hot and warm Jupiters but find no significant evidence for multiple populations. TESS should provide a near magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters, allowing for future detailed population studies.

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@article{arxiv.2102.02222,
  title  = {Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images},
  author = {Mma Ikwut-Ukwa and Joseph E. Rodriguez and Samuel N. Quinn and George Zhou and Andrew Vanderburg and Asma Ali and Katya Bunten and B. Scott Gaudi and David W. Latham and Steve B. Howell and Chelsea X. Huang and Allyson Bieryla and Karen A. Collins and Theron W. Carmichael and Markus Rabus and Jason D. Eastman and Kevin I. Collins and Thiam-Guan Tan and Richard P. Schwarz and Gordon Myers and Chris Stockdale and John F. Kielkopf and Don J. Radford and Ryan J. Oelkers and Jon M. Jenkins and George R. Ricker and Sara Seager and Roland K. Vanderspek and Joshua N. Winn and Jennifer Burt and R. Paul Butler and Michael L. Calkins and Jeffrey D. Crane and Crystal L. Gnilka and Gilbert A. Esquerdo and Wlliam Fong and Laura Kreidberg and Jessica Mink and David R. Rodriguez and Joshua E. Schlieder and Stephen Schectman and Avi Shporer and Johanna Teske and Eric B. Ting and Jesus Noel Villasenor and Daniel A. Yahalomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02222},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables, accepted to The Astronomical Journal

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