TOI-431/HIP 26013: a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with a third RV planet
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
- George Mason University, Physics and Astronomy Department, 4400 University Drive MS 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
- Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Av. Diagonal las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile, Millennium Institute for Astrophysics, Campus San Joaquín UC Facultad de Física Instituto de Astrofísica, Vicuña Mackenna, 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile
- Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350 Australia
- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, P-4150-762 Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, P-4169-007 Porto, Portugal
- Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, Banting Fellow
- Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, P-4150-762 Porto, Portugal
- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, NL-2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, SE-439 92 Onsala, Sweden
- Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
- Depto. Astrofísica, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA), ESAC Campus, E-28692 Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid), Spain
- Observatoire de l’Université de Genève, Chemin des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland, University of Zürich, Institute for Computational Science, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
- Observatoire de l’Université de Genève, Chemin des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland, Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
- Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Science Center, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics, and Institute for Research on Exoplanets, Universite de Montreal, Montreal QC H3C 3J7, Canada
- Observatoire de l’Université de Genève, Chemin des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab, Casilla 603, La Serena 1700000, Chile
- NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech/IPAC, Mail Code 100-22, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS) and ICIFI (CONICET), ECyT-UNSAM, Campus Miguelete, 25 de Mayo y Francia, (1650) Buenos Aires, Argentina
- University of Zürich, Institute for Computational Science, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 210 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
- Department of Astronomy, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
- NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech-IPAC, MC 314-6, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Department of Earth Sciences | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, Heidelberg D-69117, Germany
- Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, 13388, France
- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350 Australia, 501 Campbell Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile, Núcleo de Astronomía, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile
- Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255, USA
- NCCR PlanetS, Centre for Space & Habitability, University of Bern, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
- U.S. Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20392, USA
- Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, NCCR PlanetS, Centre for Space & Habitability, University of Bern, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
- Patashnick Voorheesville Observatory, Voorheesville, NY 12186, USA
- Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center, Rutherfordstrasse 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
- Hazelwood Observatory, Australia
- Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope, Perth, Western Australia
- Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20815, USA, NASA Hubble Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
- Exoplanetary Science at UNSW, School of Physics, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
- Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
- School of Astronomy and Space Science, Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics in Ministry of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, China
ABSTRACT We present the bright (Vmag = 9.12), multiplanet system TOI-431, characterized with photometry and radial velocities (RVs). We estimate the stellar rotation period to be 30.5 ± 0.7 d using archival photometry and RVs. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) objects of Interest (TOI)-431 b is a super-Earth with a period of 0.49 d, a radius of 1.28 ± 0.04 R⊕, a mass of 3.07 ± 0.35 M⊕, and a density of 8.0 ± 1.0 g cm−3; TOI-431 d is a sub-Neptune with a period of 12.46 d, a radius of 3.29 ± 0.09 R⊕, a mass of $$9.90^{+1.53}_{-1.49}$$ M⊕, and a density of 1.36 ± 0.25 g cm−3. We find a third planet, TOI-431 c, in the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher RV data, but it is not seen to transit in the TESS light curves. It has an Msin i of $$2.83^{+0.41}_{-0.34}$$ M⊕, and a period of 4.85 d. TOI-431 d likely has an extended atmosphere and is one of the most well-suited TESS discoveries for atmospheric characterization, while the super-Earth TOI-431 b may be a stripped core. These planets straddle the radius gap, presenting an interesting case-study for atmospheric evolution, and TOI-431 b is a prime TESS discovery for the study of rocky planet phase curves.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain
- OSTI ID:
- 1818591
- Journal Information:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 507; ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
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