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A sub-Neptune planet around TOI-1695 discovered and characterized with SPIRou and TESS

  • F. Kiefer
  • , G. Hébrard
  • , E. Martioli
  • , E. Artigau
  • , R. Doyon
  • , J. F. Donati
  • , C. Cadieux
  • , A. Carmona
  • , D. R. Ciardi
  • , P. I. Cristofari
  • , L. De Almeida
  • , P. Figueira
  • , E. Gaidos
  • , E. Gonzales
  • , A. Lecavelier Des Etangs
  • , K. G. Stassun
  • , L. Arnold
  • , B. Benneke
  • , I. Boisse
  • , X. Bonfils
  • N. J. Cook, P. Cortés-Zuleta, X. Delfosse, J. Dias Do Nascimento, M. Fausnaugh, W. Fong, P. Fouqué, T. Forveille, J. Gomes Da Silva, K. Hesse, Kóspál, H. Lewis, C. F. Liu, J. H.C. Martins, M. Paegert, S. Seager, H. Shang, J. D. Twicken, T. Vandal, S. Vinatier, T. Widemann, J. N. Winn
  • Sorbonne Univ.
  • Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
  • Observatoire de Haute-Provence
  • Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica
  • Département de Physique
  • Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanètes
  • IRAP/CNRS
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • GSFC Laboratory for Atmopsheres
  • Ipatimup Diagnósticos
  • European Southern Observatory Santiago
  • Department of Earth Sciences
  • University of Hawaii
  • Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Vanderbilt University
  • CFHT
  • Aix-Marseille Univ.
  • LAM
  • The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
  • Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Department of Physics
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Konkoly Observatory
  • Mta Centre of Excellence
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
  • Institute of Physics
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • SETI Institute
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Princeton University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

TOI-1695 is a V-mag = 13 M-dwarf star from the northern hemisphere at 45 pc from the Sun, around which a 3.134-day periodic transit signal from a super-Earth candidate was identified in TESS photometry. With a transit depth of 1.3 mmag, the radius of candidate TOI-1695.01 was estimated by the TESS pipeline to be 1.82 R with an equilibrium temperature of ~620 K. We successfully detected a reflex motion of the star and establish that it is due to a planetary companion at an orbital period consistent with the photometric transit period, thanks to a year-long radial-velocity monitoring of TOI-1695 by the SPIRou infrared spectropolarimeter. We used and compared different methods to reduce and analyze those data. We report a 5.5 detection of the planetary signal, giving a mass of 5.5±1.0 M and a radius of 2.03±0.18 R. We derive a mean equilibrium planet temperature of 590±90 K. The mean density of this small planet of 3.6±1.1 g cm3 is similar (1.7 lower) than that of the Earth. It leads to a nonnegligible fraction of volatiles in its atmosphere with fH,He = 0.280.23+0.46% or fwater = 23±12%. TOI-1695 b is a new sub-Neptune planet at the border of the M-dwarf radius valley that can help test formation scenarios for super-Earth and sub-Neptune-like planets.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberA136
JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
Volume670
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Planets and satellites: detection
  • Planets and satellites: fundamental parameters
  • Planets and satellites: individual: TOI-1695 b
  • Techniques: photometric
  • Techniques: radial velocities

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