Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A

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Authors
  • M. Brady
  • J.L. Bean
  • A. Seifahrt
  • D. Kasper
  • R. Luque
  • G. Stefánsson ORCID logo
  • J. Stürmer
  • D. Charbonneau
  • K.A. Collins
  • J.P. Doty
  • Z. Essack
  • A. Fukui
  • F.G. Horta
  • C. Hedges
  • C. Hellier
  • J.M. Jenkins
  • N. Narita
  • S.N. Quinn
  • A. Shporer
  • R.P. Schwarz
  • S. Seager
  • K.G. Stassun
  • S. Striegel
  • C.N. Watkins
  • J.N. Winn
  • R. Zambelli
Publication date 08-2024
Journal Astronomical Journal
Article number 67
Volume | Issue number 168 | 2
Number of pages 24
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract

M-dwarf stars provide us with an ideal opportunity to study nearby small planets. The HUnting for M Dwarf Rocky planets Using MAROON-X (HUMDRUM) survey uses the MAROON-X spectrograph, which is ideally suited to studying these stars, to measure precise masses of a volume-limited (<30 pc) sample of transiting M-dwarf planets. TOI-1450 is a nearby (22.5 pc) binary system containing a M3 dwarf with a roughly 3000 K companion. Its primary star, TOI-1450A, was identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to have a 2.04 days transit signal, and is included in the HUMDRUM sample. In this paper, we present MAROON-X radial velocities (RVs) which confirm the planetary nature of this signal and measure its mass at nearly 10% precision. The 2.04 days planet, TOI-1450A b, has Rb = 1.13 ± 0.04 R and Mb = 1.26 ± 0.13 M. It is the second-lowest-mass transiting planet with a high-precision RV mass measurement. With this mass and radius, the planet’s mean density is compatible with an Earth-like composition. Given its short orbital period and slightly sub-Earth density, it may be amenable to JWST follow-up to test whether the planet has retained an atmosphere despite extreme heating from the nearby star. We also discover a nontransiting planet in the system with a period of 5.07 days and a M sin ic = 1.53 ± 0.18 M . We also find a 2.01 days signal present in the systems’s TESS photometry that likely corresponds to the rotation period of TOI-1450A’s binary companion, TOI-1450B. TOI-1450A, meanwhile, appears to have a rotation period of approximately 40 days, which is in line with our expectations for a mid-M dwarf.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad500a
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85198615075
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