TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star

TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star

© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present the discovery of TOI 540 b, a hot planet slightly smaller than Earth orbiting the low-mass star 2MASS J05051443-4756154. The planet has an orbital period of P = 1.239149 days (±170 ms) and a radius of r = 0.903 ± 0.052R⊕, and...

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Main Authors: Ment, Kristo, Irwin, Jonathan, Charbonneau, David, Winters, Jennifer G, Medina, Amber, Cloutier, Ryan, Díaz, Matías R, Jenkins, James S, Ziegler, Carl, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W, Ricker, George, Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W, Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N, Jenkins, Jon M, Goeke, Robert F, Levine, Alan M, Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara, Rowden, Pamela, Ting, Eric B, Twicken, Joseph D
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134080

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