TOI-150: A Transiting Hot Jupiter in the TESS Southern CVZ

Cañas, Caleb I.; Stefansson, Gudmundur; Monson, Andrew J.; Teske, Johanna K.; Bender, Chad F.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Aerts, Conny; Beaton, Rachael L.; Butler, R. Paul; Covey, Kevin R.; Crane, Jeffrey D.; De Lee, Nathan; Díaz, Matías R.; Fleming, Scott W.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Hearty, Fred R.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Majewski, Steven R.; Nitschelm, Christian; Schneider, Donald P.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Tkachenko, Andrew; Wang, Sharon X.; Wang, Songhu; Wilson, John C.; Wilson, Robert F.
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 877, Issue 2, article id. L29, 8 pp. (2019).

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We report the detection of a hot Jupiter ({M}p={1.75}-0.17+0.14 {M}{{J}}, R p = 1.38 ± 0.04 R J) orbiting a middle-aged star ({log}g={4.152}-0.043+0.030) in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) southern continuous viewing zone (β = ‑79.°59). We confirm the planetary nature of the candidate TOI-150.01 using radial velocity observations from the APOGEE-2 South spectrograph and the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph, ground-based photometric observations from the robotic Three-hundred MilliMeter Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, and Gaia distance estimates. Large-scale spectroscopic surveys, such as APOGEE/APOGEE-2, now have sufficient radial velocity precision to directly confirm the signature of giant exoplanets, making such data sets valuable tools in the TESS era. Continual monitoring of TOI-150 by TESS can reveal additional planets and subsequent observations can provide insights into planetary system architectures involving a hot Jupiter around a star about halfway through its main-sequence life. This Letter includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.
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