K2-260 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and K2-261 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star

Johnson, M. C.; Dai, F.; Justesen, A. B.; Gandolfi, D.; Hatzes, A. P.; Nowak, G.; Endl, M.; Cochran, W. D.; Hidalgo, D.; Watanabe, N.; Parviainen, H.; Hirano, T.; Villanueva, S.; Prieto-Arranz, J.; Narita, N.; Palle, E.; Guenther, E. W.; Barragán, O.; Trifonov, T.; Niraula, P.; MacQueen, P. J.; Cabrera, J.; Csizmadia, Sz; Eigmüller, Ph; Grziwa, S.; Korth, J.; Pätzold, M.; Smith, A. M. S.; Albrecht, S.; Alonso, R.; Deeg, H.; Erikson, A.; Esposito, M.; Fridlund, M.; Fukui, A.; Kusakabe, N.; Kuzuhara, M.; Livingston, J.; Montañes Rodriguez, P.; Nespral, D.; Persson, C. M.; Purismo, T.; Raimundo, S.; Rauer, H.; Ribas, I.; Tamura, M.; Van Eylen, V.; Winn, J. N.
Referencia bibliográfica

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 481, Issue 1, p.596-612

Fecha de publicación:
11
2018
Número de autores
48
Número de autores del IAC
10
Número de citas
26
Número de citas referidas
25
Descripción
We present the discovery and confirmation of two new transiting giant planets from the Kepler extended mission K2. K2-260 b is a hot Jupiter transiting a V = 12.7 F6V star in K2 Field 13, with a mass and radius of M⋆ = 1.39_{-0.06}^{+0.05} M_{⊙} and R⋆ = 1.69 ± 0.03 R_{⊙}. The planet has an orbital period of P = 2.627 d, and a mass and radius of M_P=1.42^{+0.31}_{-0.32} M_J and R_P=1.552^{+0.048}_{-0.057} R_J. This is the first K2 hot Jupiter with a detected secondary eclipse in the Kepler bandpass, with a depth of 71 ± 15 ppm, which we use to estimate a geometric albedo of Ag ˜ 0.2. We also detected a candidate stellar companion at 0.6 arcsec from K2-260; we find that it is very likely physically associated with the system, in which case it would be an M5-6V star at a projected separation of ˜400 au. K2-261 b is a warm Saturn transiting a bright (V = 10.5) G7IV/V star in K2 Field 14. The host star is a metal rich ([Fe/H] = 0.36 ± 0.06), mildly evolved 1.10_{-0.02}^{+0.01} M_{⊙} star with R⋆ = 1.65 ± 0.04 R_{⊙}. Thanks to its location near the main-sequence turn-off, we can measure a relatively precise age of 8.8_{-0.3}^{+0.4} Gyr. The planet has P = 11.633 d, MP = 0.223 ± 0.031 M_J, and R_P=0.850^{+0.026}_{-0.022} R_J, and its orbit is eccentric (e=0.39 ± 0.15). Its brightness and relatively large transit depth make this one of the best-known warm Saturns for follow-up observations to further characterize the planetary system.
Proyectos relacionados
Image withthe projects' name
Exoplanetas y Astrobiología
La búsqueda de vida en el Universo se ha visto impulsada por los recientes descubrimientos de planetas alrededor de otras estrellas (los llamados exoplanetas), convirtiéndose en uno de los campos más activos dentro de la Astrofísica moderna. En los últimos años los descubrimientos cada vez más numerosos de nuevos exoplanetas y los últimos avances
Enric
Pallé Bago