• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: K2-99 : a subgiant hosting a transiting warm Jupiter in an eccentric orbit and a long-period companion
  • Beteiligte: Smith, Alexis M. S. [Verfasser:in]; Wolthoff, Vera [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: 29 September 2016
  • Erschienen in: Arxiv ; (2017) Artikel-Nummer 1609.00239, 10 Seiten
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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  • Beschreibung: We report the discovery from K2 of a transiting planet in an 18.25-d, eccentric (0.19$\pm$ 0.04) orbit around K2-99, an 11th magnitude subgiant in Virgo. We confirm the planetary nature of the companion with radial velocities, and determine that the star is a metal-rich ([Fe/H] = 0.20$\pm$0.05) subgiant, with mass $1.60^{+0.14}_{-0.10}~M_\odot$ and radius $3.1\pm 0.1~R_\odot$. The planet has a mass of $0.97\pm0.09~M_{\rm Jup}$ and a radius $1.29\pm0.05~R_{\rm Jup}$. A measured systemic radial acceleration of $-2.12\pm0.04~{\rm m s^{-1} d^{-1}}$ offers compelling evidence for the existence of a third body in the system, perhaps a brown dwarf orbiting with a period of several hundred days.
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