J/AJ/163/223         Radial velocity study of π Mensae        (Hatzes+, 2022)

A Radial Velocity Study of the Planetary System of π Mensae; Improved Planet Parameters for π Mensae c and a Third Planet on a 125 Day Orbit. Hatzes A.P., Gandolfi D., Korth J., Rodler F., Sabotta S., Esposito M., Barragan O., Van Eylen V., Livingston J.H., Serrano L.M., Luque R., Smith A.M.S., Redfield S., Persson C.M., Patzold M., Palle E., Nowak G., Osborne H.L.M., Narita N., Mathur S., Lam K.W.F., Kabath P., Johnson M.C., Guenther E.W., Grziwa S., Goffo E., Fridlund M., Endl M., Deeg H.J., Csizmadia S., Cochran W.D., Cuesta L.G., Chaturvedi P., Carleo I., Cabrera J., Beck P.G., Albrecht S. <Astron. J., 163, 223 (2022)> =2022AJ....163..223H 2022AJ....163..223H
ADC_Keywords: Exoplanets; Stars, high-velocity; Radial velocities; Spectra, optical Keywords: Exoplanet systems Abstract: π Men hosts a transiting planet detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space mission and an outer planet in a 5.7yr orbit discovered by radial velocity (RVel) surveys. We studied this system using new RVel measurements taken with the HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6m telescope, as well as archival data. We constrain the stellar RVel semiamplitude due to the transiting planet, πMenc, as Kc=1.21±0.12m/s, resulting in a planet mass of Mc=3.63±0.38M⊕. A planet radius of Rc=2.145±0.015R⊕ yields a bulk density of ρc=2.03±0.22g/cm3. The precisely determined density of this planet and the brightness of the host star make πMenc an excellent laboratory for internal structure and atmospheric characterization studies. Our HARPS RVel measurements also reveal compelling evidence for a third body, πMend, with a minimum mass Mdsinid=13.38±1.35M⊕ orbiting with a period of Porb,d=125days on an eccentric orbit (ed=0.22). A simple dynamical analysis indicates that the orbit of πMend is stable on timescales of at least 20Myr. Given the mutual inclination between the outer gaseous giant and the inner rocky planet and the presence of a third body at 125days, π Men is an important planetary system for dynamical and formation studies. Description: Our radial velocity (RVel) data consist of archival and new measurements from our ESO's HARPS large follow-up program. A total of 77 RVel measurements come from the UCLES spectrograph mounted on the 3.9m telescope of the Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT). Archival HARPS data consisting of 145 RVel measurements (51 nightly averaged) were also taken from the public archive of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). We also included 275 RVel measurements (37 nightly averaged) taken with the ESPRESSO spectrograph. The new data for π Men were taken as part of our ESO observing programs 0101.C-0829, 1102.C-0923, and 106.21TJ.001 (PI: Gandolfi) and during technical nights (program IDs 60.A-9700 and 60.A-9709) on HARPS. These consisted of 413 RV measurements 27 spanning 2018 September to 2020 December. Exposure times were 150-300s, resulting in a median S/N of ∼250/pixel at 550nm. Objects: -------------------------------------------------- RA (2000) DE Designation(s) -------------------------------------------------- 05 37 09.89 -80 28 08.8 π Mensae = * pi. Men -------------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table3.dat 63 402 RVel measurements and activity indicators Large Programs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: II/122 : UBV Photoelectric Catalog: data 1953-1985 (Mermilliod 1987) I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018) J/ApJ/646/505 : Catalog of nearby exoplanets (Butler+, 2006) J/A+A/468/1115 : Thorium and argon lines in the visible (Lovis+, 2007) J/ApJ/715/1203 : υ Andromedae system with HST (McArthur+, 2010) J/ApJS/200/15 : HARPS-TERRA project. I. (Anglada-Escude+, 2012) J/A+A/580/A31 : Aldebaran radial velocity variations (Hatzes+, 2015) J/AJ/154/109 : California-Kepler Survey. III. Planet radii (Fulton+, 2017) J/AJ/156/264 : California-Kepler Survey VII Planet radius gap (Fulton+, 2018) J/A+A/619/L10 : pi Men radial velocity curves (Gandolfi+, 2018) J/A+A/609/A117 : CARMENES radial velocity curves of 7 M-dwarf (Trifonov+, 2018) J/AJ/157/33 : Radial velocity exploration of εEridani (Mawet+, 2019) J/A+A/642/A31 : pi Men radial velocity curves (Damasso+, 2020) J/A+A/640/A73 : pi Men radial velocity curves (De Rosa+, 2020) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 14 F14.6 d BJD [2458383/2459186] Barycentric Julian Date at TDB 16- 23 F8.2 m/s RVel [10695/11036] Radial Velocity 25- 28 F4.2 m/s e_RVel [0.27/1.49] Uncertainty in RVel 30- 37 F8.5 m/s BIS [3.05/12.9] Bisector inverse slope 39- 45 F7.5 m/s FWHM [7.66/7.69] Full-width at half-maximum 47- 54 F8.6 --- SHK [0.14/0.16] Ca II S-index 56- 63 F8.6 --- e_SHK [0.0002/0.003] Uncertainty in SHK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
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