TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A warm sub-saturn orbiting an evolved F-type star

Brett C. Addison, Duncan J. Wright, Belinda A. Nicholson, Bryson Cale, Teo Mocnik, Daniel Huber, Peter Plavchan, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Andrew Vanderburg, William J. Chaplin, Ashley Chontos, Jake T. Clark, Jason D. Eastman, Carl Ziegler, Rafael Brahm, Bradley D. Carter, Mathieu Clerte, Néstor Espinoza, Jonathan Horner, John BentleyAndrés Jordán, Stephen R. Kane, John F. Kielkopf, Emilie Laychock, Matthew W. Mengel, Jack Okumura, Keivan G. Stassun, Timothy R. Bedding, Brendan P. Bowler, Andrius Burnelis, Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Michaela Collins, Ian Crossfield, Allen B. Davis, Dag Evensberget, Alexis Heitzmann, Steve B. Howell, Nicholas Law, Andrew W. Mann, Stephen C. Marsden, Rachel A. Matson, James H. O'Connor, Avi Shporer, Catherine Stevens, C. G. Tinney, Christopher Tylor, Songhu Wang, Hui Zhang, Thomas Henning, Diana Kossakowski, George Ricker, Paula Sarkis, Martin Schlecker, Pascal Torres, Roland Vanderspek, David W. Latham, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Ismael Mireles, Pam Rowden, Joshua Pepper, Tansu Daylan, Joshua E. Schlieder, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Thiam Guan Tan, Warrick H. Ball, Sarbani Basu, Derek L. Buzasi, Tiago L. Campante, Enrico Corsaro, L. González-Cuesta, Guy R. Davies, Leandro De Almeida, Jose Dias Do Nascimento, Rafael A. García, Zhao Guo, Rasmus Handberg, Saskia Hekker, Daniel R. Hey, Thomas Kallinger, Steven D. Kawaler, Cenk Kayhan, James S. Kuszlewicz, Mikkel N. Lund, Alexander Lyttle, Savita Mathur, Andrea Miglio, Benoit Mosser, Martin B. Nielsen, Aldo M. Serenelli, Victor Silva Aguirre, Nathalie Themeßl

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Abstract

The discovery of a warm sub-Saturn planet, TOI-257b (HD 19916b), is reported, utilizing data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The transit signal detected by TESS was confirmed as a planet through radial velocity observations. Analysis of TESS photometry, Minerva-Australis, FEROS, and HARPS radial velocities, alongside asteroseismic data, shows that TOI-257b has a mass of 0.138 ± 0.023 MJ (43.9 ± 7.3 M⊕), a radius of 0.639 ± 0.013 RJ (7.16 ± 0.15 R⊕), bulk density of 0.65+0.12-0.11 (cgs), and an orbital period of 18.38818 +0.00085 -0.00084 days. The planet orbits a late F-type star and there are hints of a second non-transiting sub-Saturn mass planet on a ∼71-day orbit. This discovery is significant as warm sub-Saturns are rare, making TOI-257b valuable for future studies on the formation and migration history of similar planetary systems.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3704-3722
Number of pages19
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume502
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2021
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

  • asteroseismology
  • planetary systems
  • stars: individual (TIC 200723869/TOI-257)
  • techniques: photometric
  • techniques: radial velocities
  • techniques: spectroscopic

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