J/AJ/164/15 Exoplanets considered as Ariel's potential targets (Edwards+, 2022)
The Ariel Target List; The Impact of TESS and the Potential for Characterizing
Multiple Planets within a System.
Edwards B., Tinetti G.
<Astron. J., 164, 15 (2022)>
=2022AJ....164...15E 2022AJ....164...15E
ADC_Keywords: Exoplanets; Photometry, infrared
Keywords: Exoplanet atmospheres ; Exoplanet atmospheric composition ;
Exoplanet systems ; Exoplanet catalogs ; Infrared telescopes ;
Infrared observatories ; Infrared Astronomical Satellite
Abstract:
The ESA Ariel mission has been adopted for launch in 2029 and will
conduct a survey of around 1000 exoplanetary atmospheres during its
primary mission life. By providing homogeneous data sets with a high
signal-to-noise ratio and wide wavelength coverage, Ariel will unveil
the atmospheric demographics of these faraway worlds, helping to
constrain planet formation and evolution processes on a galactic
scale. Ariel seeks to undertake a statistical survey of a diverse
population of planets; therefore, the sample of planets from which
this selection can be made is of the utmost importance. While many
suitable targets have already been found, hundreds more will be
discovered before the mission is operational. Previous studies have
used predictions of exoplanet detections to forecast the available
planet population by the launch date of Ariel, with the most recent
noting that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) alone
should provide over 1000 potential targets. In this work, we consider
the planet candidates found to date by TESS to show that, with the
addition of already confirmed planets, Ariel will already have a more
than sufficient sample to choose its target list from once these
candidates are validated. We showcase the breadth of this population,
as well as exploring, for the first time, the ability of Ariel to
characterize multiple planets within a single system. Comparative
planetology of worlds orbiting the same star, as well as across the
wider population, will undoubtedly revolutionize our understanding of
planet formation and evolution.
Description:
Ariel simultaneously provide spectral coverage from 0.5 to 7.8µm,
with photometric bands covering the visible and spectrometers
providing data at wavelengths longer than 1.1µm. The mission
objective of Ariel is to uncover the chemical diversity of exoplanet
atmospheres, with the bulk of the mission being dedicated to a survey
constructed of three tiers, where the depth to which the planet is
studied increases with each tier.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table3.dat 26 512 *Currently-known exoplanets which are considered
here to be potential targets for Ariel
table4.dat 17 1724 *TESS planet candidates which are considered here to
be potential targets for Ariel
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Note on table3.dat and table4.dat: The lists will continue to evolve as
surveys discover more planets
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See also:
I/337 : Gaia DR1 (Gaia Collaboration, 2016)
I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018)
J/ApJS/208/9 : Intrinsic colors and temperatures of PMS stars (Pecaut+, 2013)
J/A+A/564/A125 : AGN Torus model comparison of AGN in the CDFS (Buchner+, 2014)
J/MNRAS/440/1649 : ExoMol line lists for CH4 (Yurchenko+, 2014)
J/ApJ/809/77 : Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) (Sullivan+, 2015)
J/ApJ/825/62 : Star with Mpsin(i)>0.1MJup hot Jupiter (Schlaufman+, 2016)
J/ApJ/831/64 : Mass-metallicity relation for giant planets (Thorngren+, 2016)
J/ApJ/834/17 : Mass & radius of planets, moons, low mass stars (Chen+, 2017)
J/ApJS/239/2 : Simulated exoplanets from TESS list targets (Barclay+, 2018)
J/AJ/157/242 : Updated study of potential targets for Ariel (Edwards+, 2019)
J/A+A/640/A112 : TRAPPIST-1 transit timings (Ducrot+, 2020)
J/A+A/640/A48 : K2-32 and K2-233 light and RV curves (Lillo-Box+, 2020)
J/AJ/160/230 : WASP-31b & host star rad compared with IMACS (McGruder+, 2020)
J/other/ExA/51.109 : Transit KELT-11b observed by CHEOPS (Benz+, 2021)
J/A+A/646/A157 : HD 108236 CHEOPS light curves (Bonfanti+, 2021)
J/other/NatAs/5.775 : nu2 Lupi CHEOPS light curves (Delrez+, 2021)
J/ApJS/254/39 : Exoplanet candidates from TESS first 2yr obs (Guerrero+, 2021)
J/A+A/649/A26 : TOI-178 six transiting planets (Leleu+, 2021)
J/A+A/645/A100 : SPECULOOS. Ultracool dwarf transit survey (Sebastian+, 2021)
J/AJ/161/56 : The TESS-Keck Survey. II. RVs of TOI-561 (Weiss+, 2021)
J/AJ/162/259 : Scaling K2 IV Campaigns 1-8&10-18 planets sample (Zink+, 2021)
J/A+A/658/A133 : TRAPPIST-1 h NIR spectrum (Gressier+, 2022)
J/ApJS/258/40 : ExoClock project II. New exoplanet ephemerides (Kokori+, 2022)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 16 A16 --- Planet Planet identifier
18 I1 --- Tier [1/3] Tier
20- 26 A7 --- Met Method used
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 7 F7.2 --- TOI TESS object of interest identifier
9 I1 --- Tier [1/3] Tier
11- 17 A7 --- Met Method used
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Prepared by Coralie Fix [CDS], 13-Dec-2022