Browsing by Author "Rodriguez, Joseph E."

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    Mass determination of two Jupiter-sized planets orbiting slightly evolved stars: TOI-2420 b and TOI-2485 b
    (2024) Carleo, Ilaria; Barragan, Oscar; Persson, Carina M.; Fridlund, Malcolm; Lam, Kristine W. F.; Messina, Sergio; Gandolfi, Davide; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Johnson, Marshall C.; Cochran, William; Osborne, Hannah L. M.; Brahm, Rafael; Ciardi, David R.; Collins, Karen A.; Everett, Mark E.; Giacalone, Steven; Guenther, Eike W.; Hatzes, Artie; Hellier, Coel; Horner, Jonathan; Kabath, Petr; Korth, Judith; MacQueen, Phillip; Masseron, Thomas; Murgas, Felipe; Nowak, Grzegorz; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Watkins, Cristilyn N.; Wittenmyer, Rob; Zhou, George; Ziegler, Carl; Bieryla, Allyson; Boyd, Patricia T.; Clark, Catherine A.; Dressing, Courtney D.; Eastman, Jason D.; Eberhardt, Jan; Endl, Michael; Espinoza, Nestor; Fausnaugh, Michael; Guerrero, Natalia M.; Henning, Thomas; Hesse, Katharine; Hobson, Melissa J.; Howell, Steve B.; Jordan, Andres; Latham, David W.; Lund, Michael B.; Mireles, Ismael; Narita, Norio; Tala Pinto, Marcelo; Pugh, Teznie; Quinn, Samuel N.; Ricker, George; Rodriguez, David R.; Rojas, Felipe I.; Rose, Mark E.; Rudat, Alexander; Sarkis, Paula; Savel, Arjun B.; Schlecker, Martin; Schwarz, Richard P.; Seager, Sara; Shporer, Avi; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Stockdale, Chris; Trifonov, Trifon; Vanderspek, Roland; Winn, Joshua N.; Wright, Duncan
    Context. Hot and warm Jupiters might have undergone the same formation and evolution path, but the two populations exhibit different distributions of orbital parameters. This challenges our understanding of their actual origin. Aims. We report the results of our warm Jupiters survey, which was carried out with the CHIRON spectrograph within the KESPRINT collaboration. We addressed the question of the population origin by studying two planets that might help to bridge the gap between the two populations. Methods. We confirm two planets and determine their mass. One is a hot Jupiter (with an orbital period shorter than 10 days), TOI-2420 b, and the other is a warm Jupiter, TOI-2485 b. We analyzed them using a wide variety of spectral and photometric data in order to characterize these planetary systems. Results. We found that TOI-2420 b has an orbital period of P-b=5.8 days, a mass of M-b=0.9 M-J, and a radius of R-b=1.3 R-J, with a planetary density of 0.477 g cm(-3). TOI-2485 b has an orbital period of P-b=11.2 days, a mass of M-b=2.4 M-J, and a radius of R-b=1.1 R-J with a density of 2.36 g cm(-3). Conclusions. With the current parameters, the migration history for TOI-2420 b and TOI-2485 b is unclear: Scenarios of a high-eccentricity migration cannot be ruled out, and the characteristics of TOI-2485 b even support this scenario.
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    TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full-frame Images
    (2021) Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Zhou, George; Vanderburg, Andrew; Nielsen, Louise D.; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Brahm, Rafael; Reed, Phillip A.; Huang, Chelsea X.; Vach, Sydney; Ciardi, David R.; Oelkers, Ryan J.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Hellier, Coel; Gaudi, B. Scott; Eastman, Jason D.; Collins, Karen A.; Bieryla, Allyson; Christian, Sam; Latham, David W.; Carleo, Ilaria; Wright, Duncan J.; Matthews, Elisabeth; Gonzales, Erica J.; Ziegler, Carl; Dressing, Courtney D.; Howell, Steve B.; Tan, Thiam-Guan; Wittrock, Justin; Plavchan, Peter; McLeod, Kim K.; Baker, David; Wang, Gavin; Radford, Don J.; Schwarz, Richard P.; Esposito, Massimiliano; Ricker, George R.; Vanderspek, Roland K.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Addison, Brett; Anderson, D. R.; Barclay, Thomas; Beatty, Thomas G.; Berlind, Perry; Bouchy, Francois; Bowen, Michael; Bowler, Brendan P.; Brasseur, C. E.; Briceno, Cesar; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Calkins, Michael L.; Cartwright, Scott; Chaturvedi, Priyanka; Chaverot, Guillaume; Chimaladinne, Sudhish; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Collins, Kevin I.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Eastridge, Kevin; Espinoza, Nestor; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Feliz, Dax L.; Fenske, Tyler; Fong, William; Gan, Tianjun; Giacalone, Steven; Gill, Holden; Gordon, Lindsey; Granados, A.; Grieves, Nolan; Guenther, Eike W.; Guerrero, Natalia; Henning, Thomas; Henze, Christopher E.; Hesse, Katharine; Hobson, Melissa J.; Horner, Jonathan; James, David J.; Jensen, Eric L. N.; Jimenez, Mary; Jordan, Andres; Kane, Stephen R.; Kielkopf, John; Kim, Kingsley; Kuhn, Rudolf B.; Latouf, Natasha; Law, Nicholas M.; Levine, Alan M.; Lund, Michael B.; Mann, Andrew W.; Mao, Shude; Matson, Rachel A.; Mengel, Matthew W.; Mink, Jessica; Newman, Patrick; O'Dwyer, Tanner; Okumura, Jack; Palle, Enric; Pepper, Joshua; Quintana, Elisa V.; Sarkis, Paula; Savel, Arjun B.; Schlieder, Joshua E.; Schnaible, Chloe; Shporer, Avi; Sefako, Ramotholo; Seidel, Julia V.; Siverd, Robert J.; Skinner, Brett; Stalport, Manu; Stevens, Daniel J.; Stibbards, Caitlin; Tinney, C. G.; West, R. G.; Yahalomi, Daniel A.; Zhang, Hui
    We present the discovery and characterization of five hot and warm Jupiters-TOI-628 b (TIC 281408474; HD 288842), TOI-640 b (TIC 147977348), TOI-1333 b (TIC 395171208, BD+47 3521A), TOI-1478 b (TIC 409794137), and TOI-1601 b ( TIC 139375960)-based on data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The five planets were identified from the full-frame images and were confirmed through a series of photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations by the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Working Group. The planets are all Jovian size (R-P = 1.01-1.77 R-J) and have masses that range from 0.85 to 6.33 M-J. The host stars of these systems have F and G spectral types (5595 <= T-eff <= 6460 K) and are all relatively bright (9.5 < V < 10.8, 8.2 < K < 9.3), making them well suited for future detailed characterization efforts. Three of the systems in our sample (TOI-640 b, TOI-1333 b, and TOI-1601 b) orbit subgiant host stars (log g < 4.1). TOI-640 b is one of only three known hot Jupiters to have a highly inflated radius (R-P > 1.7 R-J, possibly a result of its host star's evolution) and resides on an orbit with a period longer than 5 days. TOI-628 b is the most massive, hot Jupiter discovered to date by TESS with a measured mass of 6.31(-0.30)(+) (0.28) M-J and a statistically significant, nonzero orbital eccentricity of e = 0.074(-0.022)(+) (0.021). This planet would not have had enough time to circularize through tidal forces from our analysis, suggesting that it might be remnant eccentricity from its migration. The longest-period planet in this sample, TOI-1478 b (P = 10.18 days), is a warm Jupiter in a circular orbit around a near-solar analog. NASA's TESS mission is continuing to increase the sample of well-characterized hot and warm Jupiters, complementing its primary mission goals.
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    Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b
    (2023) Psaridi, Angelica; Bouchy, Francois; Lendl, Monika; Akinsanmi, Babatunde; Stassun, Keivan G.; Smalley, Barry; Armstrong, David J.; Howard, Saburo; Ulmer-Moll, Solene; Grieves, Nolan; Barkaoui, Khalid; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Bryant, Edward M.; Suarez, Olga; Guillot, Tristan; Evans, Phil; Attia, Omar; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Yee, Samuel W.; Collins, Karen A.; Zhou, George; Galland, Franck; Parc, Lena; Udry, Stephane; Figueira, Pedro; Ziegler, Carl; Mordasini, Christoph; Winn, Joshua N.; Seager, Sara; Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Brahm, Rafael; Jones, Matias, I; Abe, Lyu; Addison, Brett T.; Briceno, Cesar I.; Briegal, Joshua; Collins, Kevin; Daylan, Tansu; Eigmueller, Phillip M.; Furesz, Gabor; Guerrero, Natalia; Hagelberg, Janis; Heitzmann, Alexis X.; Hounsell, Rebekah; Huang, Chelsea M.; Krenn, Andreas W.; Law, Nicholas; Mann, Andrew; McCormac, James; Mekarnia, Djamel D.; Mounzer, Dany; Nielsen, Louise R.; Osborn, Ares; Reinarz, Yared A.; Sefako, Ramotholo; Steiner, Michal I.; Strom, Paul A.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Vanderspek, Roland; Vanzi, Leonardo; Vines, Jose; Watson, Christopher; Wright, Duncan; Zapata, Abner
    While the sample of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, the population of transiting exoplanets around early-type stars is still limited. These planets allow us to investigate the planet properties and formation pathways over a wide range of stellar masses and study the impact of high irradiation on hot Jupiters orbiting such stars. We report the discovery of TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b, three Saturn-mass planets transiting main sequence, F-type stars. The planets were identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and confirmed with complementary ground-based and radial velocity observations. TOI-615b is a highly irradiated (similar to 1277 F-circle dot) and bloated Saturn-mass planet (1.69(-0.06)(+0.05) R-Jup and 0.43(-0.08)(+0.09) M-Jup) in a 4.66 day orbit transiting a 6850 K star. TOI-622b has a radius of 0.82(-0.03)(+0.03) R-Jup and a mass of 0.30(-0.08)(+0.07) M-Jup in a 6.40 day orbit. Despite its high insolation flux (similar to 600 F-circle dot), TOI-622b does not show any evidence of radius inflation. TOI-2641b is a 0.39(-0.04)(+0.02) M-Jup planet in a 4.88 day orbit with a grazing transit (b = 1.04(-0.06)(+0.05)) that results in a poorly constrained radius of 1.61(-0.64)(+0.46) R-Jup. Additionally, TOI-615b is considered attractive for atmospheric studies via transmission spectroscopy with ground-based spectrographs and JWST. Future atmospheric and spin-orbit alignment observations are essential since they can provide information on the atmospheric composition, formation, and migration of exoplanets across various stellar types.
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    TOpI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogue
    (2024) Gill, Samuel; Bayliss, Daniel; Ulmer-Moll, Solene; Wheatley, Peter J.; Brahm, Rafael; Anderson, David R.; Armstrong, David; Apergis, Ioannis; Alves, Douglas R.; Burleigh, Matthew R.; Butler, R. P.; Bouchy, Francois; Battley, Matthew P.; Bryant, Edward M.; Bieryla, Allyson; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Collins, Karen A.; Casewell, Sarah L.; Carleo, Ilaria; Claringbold, Alastair B.; Dalba, Paul A.; Dragomir, Diana; Eigmueller, Philipp; Eberhardt, Jan; Fausnaugh, Michael; Gunther, Maximilian N.; Grieves, Nolan; Goad, Michael R.; Gillen, Edward; Hagelberg, Janis; Hobson, Melissa; Hedges, Christina; Henderson, Beth A.; Hawthorn, Faith; Henning, Thomas; Jones, Matias, I; Jordan, Andres; Jenkins, James S.; Kunimoto, Michelle; Krenn, Andreas F.; Kendall, Alicia; Lendl, Monika; McCormac, James; Moyano, Maximiliano; Torres-Miranda, Pascal; Nielsen, Louise D.; Osborn, Ares; Otegi, Jon; Osborn, Hugh; Quinn, Samuel N.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Ramsay, Gavin; Schlecker, Martin; Shectman, Stephen A.; Seager, Sara; Tilbrook, Rosanna H.; Trifonov, Trifon; Teske, Johanna K.; Udry, Stephane; Vines, Jose, I; West, Richard R.; Wohler, Bill; Winn, Joshua N.; Wang, Sharon X.; Zhou, George; Zivave, Tafadzwa
    Discovering transiting exoplanets with relatively long orbital periods (>10 d) is crucial to facilitate the study of cool exoplanet atmospheres (T-eq < 700 K) and to understand exoplanet formation and inward migration further out than typical transiting exoplanets. In order to discover these longer period transiting exoplanets, long-term photometric, and radial velocity campaigns are required. We report the discovery of TOI-2447 b (=NGTS-29 b), a Saturn-mass transiting exoplanet orbiting a bright (T = 10.0) Solar-type star (T-eff = 5730 K). TOI-2447 b was identified as a transiting exoplanet candidate from a single transit event of 1.3 per cent depth and 7.29 h duration in TESS Sector 31 and a prior transit event from 2017 in NGTS data. Four further transit events were observed with NGTS photometry which revealed an orbital period of P = 69.34 d. The transit events establish a radius for TOI-2447 b of 0.865 +/- 0.010 R-J, while radial velocity measurements give a mass of 0.386 +/- 0.025 M-J. The equilibrium temperature of the planet is 414 K, making it much cooler than the majority of TESS planet discoveries. We also detect a transit signal in NGTS data not caused by TOI-2447 b, along with transit timing variations and evidence for a similar to 150 d signal in radial velocity measurements. It is likely that the system hosts additional planets, but further photometry and radial velocity campaigns will be needed to determine their parameters with confidence. TOI-2447 b/NGTS-29 b joins a small but growing population of cool giants that will provide crucial insights into giant planet composition and formation mechanisms.