LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS

LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS

We report the first discovery of a thick-disk planet, LHS 1815b (TOI-704b, TIC 260004324), detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) survey. LHS 1815b transits a bright (V = 12.19 mag, K = 7.99 mag) and quiet M dwarf located 29.87 ± 0.02 pc away with a mass of 0.502 ± 0.015 M ⊙ an...

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Main Authors: Gan, Tianjun, Shporer, Abraham-Avi, Livingston, John H., Collins, Karen A., Mao, Shude, Trani, Alessandro A., Gandolfi, Davide, Hirano, Teruyuki, Luque, Rafael, Stassun, Keivan G., Ziegler, Carl, Howell, Steve B., Hellier, Coel, Irwin, Jonathan M., Winters, Jennifer G., Anderson, David R., Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Bonfils, Xavier, Astudillo-Defru, Nicola, Jensen, Eric L. N., Anglada-Escudé, Guillem, Ricker, George R, Vanderspek, Roland K, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Furesz, Gabor, Guerrero, Natalia M., Quintana, Elisa, Twicken, Joseph D., Caldwell, Douglas A., Tenenbaum, Peter, Huang, Chelsea X., Rowden, Pamela, Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125260

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