Radial velocity and photometric flux of TOI-3757 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kanodia S.
  2. Libby-Roberts J.
  3. Canas C.I.
  4. Ninan J.P.
  5. Mahadevan S.,Stefansson G.
  6. Lin A.S.J.
  7. Jones S.
  8. Monson A.
  9. Parker B.A.,Kobulnicky H.A.
  10. Swaby T.N.
  11. Powers L.
  12. Beard C.
  13. Bender C.F.
  14. Blake C.H.,Cochran W.D.
  15. Dong J.
  16. Diddams S.A.
  17. Fredrick C.
  18. Gupta A.F.
  19. Halverson S.,Hearty F.
  20. Logsdon S.E.
  21. Metcalf A.J.
  22. McElwain M.W.
  23. Morley C.,Rajagopal J.
  24. Ramsey L.W.
  25. Robertson P.
  26. Roy A.
  27. Schwab C.
  28. Terrien R.C.,Wisniewski J.
  29. Wright J.T.
  30. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the discovery of a new Jovian-sized planet, TOI-3757b, the lowest-density transiting planet known to orbit an M dwarf (M0V). This planet was discovered around a solar-metallicity M dwarf, using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite photometry and confirmed with precise radial velocities from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) and NEID. With a planetary radius of 12.0_-0.5_^+0.4^R{Earth} and mass of 85.3_-8.7_^+8.8^M{Earth}, not only does this object add to the small sample of gas giants (~10) around M dwarfs, but also its low density ({rho}=0.27_-0.04_^+0.05^g/cm^3^) provides an opportunity to test theories of planet formation. We present two hypotheses to explain its low density; first, we posit that the low metallicity of its stellar host (~0.3dex lower than the median metallicity of M dwarfs hosting gas giants) could have played a role in the delayed formation of a solid core massive enough to initiate runaway accretion. Second, using the eccentricity estimate of 0.14{+/-}0.06, we determine it is also plausible for tidal heating to at least partially be responsible for inflating the radius of TOI-3757b. The low density and large scale height of TOI-3757b makes it an excellent target for transmission spectroscopy studies of atmospheric escape and composition (transmission spectroscopy measurement of ~190). We use HPF to perform transmission spectroscopy of TOI-3757b using the helium 10830{AA} line. Doing this, we place an upper limit of 6.9% (with 90% confidence) on the maximum depth of the absorption from the metastable transition of He at ~10830{AA}, which can help constraint the atmospheric mass-loss rate in this energy-limited regime.

Keywords
  1. exoplanets
  2. m-stars
  3. infrared-astronomy
  4. spectroscopy
  5. photometry
  6. radial-velocity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022AJ....164...81K
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/164/81
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51640081

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2022-11-21T06:51:38Z
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2022-11-21T06:51:38Z
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