A Second Planet Transiting LTT 1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds

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Dokumenter

  • Jennifer G. Winters
  • Ryan Cloutier
  • Amber A. Medina
  • Jonathan M. Irwin
  • David Charbonneau
  • Nicola Astudillo-Defru
  • Xavier Bonfils
  • Andrew W. Howard
  • Howard Isaacson
  • Jacob L. Bean
  • Andreas Seifahrt
  • Johanna K. Teske
  • Jason D. Eastman
  • Joseph D. Twicken
  • Karen A. Collins
  • Eric L. N. Jensen
  • Samuel N. Quinn
  • Matthew J. Payne
  • Martti H. Kristiansen
  • Alton Spencer
  • Andrew Vanderburg
  • Mathias Zechmeister
  • Lauren M. Weiss
  • Sharon Xuesong Wang
  • Gavin Wang
  • Stephane Udry
  • Ivan A. Terentev
  • Julian Stuermer
  • Gudmundur Stefansson
  • Avi Shporer
  • Stephen Shectman
  • Ramotholo Sefako
  • Hans Martin Schwengeler
  • Richard P. Schwarz
  • Nicholas Scarsdale
  • Ryan A. Rubenzahl
  • Arpita Roy
  • Lee J. Rosenthal
  • Paul Robertson
  • Erik A. Petigura
  • Francesco Pepe
  • Mark Omohundro
  • Joseph M. Akana Murphy
  • Felipe Murgas
  • Teo Mocnik
  • Benjamin T. Montet
  • Ronald Mennickent
  • Bob Massey
  • Jack Lubin
  • Christophe Lovis
  • Pablo Lewin
  • David Kasper
  • Stephen R. Kane
  • Jon M. Jenkins
  • Daniel Huber
  • Keith Horne
  • Michelle L. Hill
  • Paula Gorrini
  • Steven Giacalone
  • Benjamin Fulton
  • Thierry Forveille
  • Pedro Figueira
  • Tara Fetherolf
  • Courtney Dressing
  • Rodrigo F. Diaz
  • Xavier Delfosse
  • Paul A. Dalba
  • Fei Dai
  • C. C. Cortes
  • Ian J. M. Crossfield
  • Jeffrey D. Crane
  • Dennis M. Conti
  • Kevin Collins
  • Ashley Chontos
  • R. Paul Butler
  • Peyton Brown
  • Madison Brady
  • Aida Behmard
  • Corey Beard
  • Natalie M. Batalha
  • Jose-Manuel Almenara

LTT 1445 is a hierarchical triple M-dwarf star system located at a distance of 6.86 pc. The primary star LTT 1445A (0.257 M-circle dot) is known to host the transiting planet LTT 1445Ab with an orbital period of 5.36 days, making it the second-closest known transiting exoplanet system, and the closest one for which the host is an M dwarf. Using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite data, we present the discovery of a second planet in the LTT 1445 system, with an orbital period of 3.12 days. We combine radial-velocity measurements obtained from the five spectrographs, Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations, High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, MAROON-X, and Planet Finder Spectrograph to establish that the new world also orbits LTT 1445A. We determine the mass and radius of LTT 1445Ab to be 2.87 +/- 0.25 M-circle plus and 1.304(-0.060)(+0.067) R-circle plus, consistent with an Earth-like composition. For the newly discovered LTT 1445Ac, we measure a mass of 1.54(-0.19)(+0.20) M-circle plus and a minimum radius of 1.15 R-circle plus, but we cannot determine the radius directly as the signal-to-noise ratio of our light curve permits both grazing and nongrazing configurations. Using MEarth photometry and ground-based spectroscopy, we establish that star C (0.161 M-circle dot) is likely the source of the 1.4 day rotation period, and star B (0.215 MY circle dot) has a likely rotation period of 6.7 days. We estimate a probable rotation period of 85 days for LTT 1445A. Thus, this triple M-dwarf system appears to be in a special evolutionary stage where the most massive M dwarf has spun down, the intermediate mass M dwarf is in the process of spinning down, while the least massive stellar component has not yet begun to spin down.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer168
TidsskriftAstronomical Journal
Vol/bind163
Udgave nummer4
Antal sider18
ISSN0004-6256
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 apr. 2022

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