Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-mass Stars. III. A High Mass and Low Envelope Fraction for the Warm Neptune K2-55b

K2-55b is a Neptune-sized planet orbiting a K7 dwarf with a radius of 0.715[subscript -0.040][superscript +0.043]R[subscript ⊙], a mass of 0.688 ± 0.069 M[subscript ⊙], and an effective temperature of 4300[subscript -100][superscript +107] K. Having characterized the host star using near-infrared sp...

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Main Authors: Dressing, Courtney D., Sinukoff, Evan, Fulton, Benjamin J., Lopez, Eric D., Beichman, Charles A., Howard, Andrew W., Knutson, Heather A., Werner, Michael, Benneke, Björn, Crossfield, Ian Jm, Isaacson, Howard, Krick, Jessica, Gorjian, Varoujan, Livingston, John, Petigura, Erik A., Schlieder, Joshua E., Akeson, Rachel L., Batygin, Konstantin, Christiansen, Jessie L., Ciardi, David R., Crepp, Justin R., Gonzales, Erica J., Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin, Hirsch, Lea A., Kosiarek, Molly, Weiss, Lauren M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121204