A hot super-Earth planet in the WASP-84 planetary system

Hot Jupiters have been perceived as loners devoid of planetary companions in close orbital proximity. However, recent discoveries based on space-borne precise photometry have revealed that at least some fraction of giant planets coexists with low-mass planets in compact orbital architectures. We rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Maciejewski, G., Golonka, J., Łoboda, W., Ohlert, J., Fernández, Matilde, Aceituno, Francisco José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/356406
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/356406
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Planets and satellites: detection
Planets and satellites: formation
Planets and satellites: Terrestrial planets
Stars: individual: WASP-84 (BD+02 2056)
Techniques: photometric
Techniques: radial velocities
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Sumario:Hot Jupiters have been perceived as loners devoid of planetary companions in close orbital proximity. However, recent discoveries based on space-borne precise photometry have revealed that at least some fraction of giant planets coexists with low-mass planets in compact orbital architectures. We report detecting a 1.446-d transit-like signal in the photometric time series acquired with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) for the WASP-84 system, which is known to contain a hot Jupiter on a circular 8.5-d orbit. The planet was validated based on TESS photometry, and its signal was distilled in radial velocity measurements. The joint analysis of photometric and Doppler data resulted in a multiplanetary model of the system. With a mass of, radius of, and orbital distance of 0.024 au, the new planet WASP-84 c was classified as a hot super-Earth with the equilibrium temperature of 1300 K. A growing number of companions to hot Jupiters indicates that a non-negligible part of them must have formed under a quiescent scenario such as disc migration or in situ formation. © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.