scholarly journals Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full-frame Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Mma Ikwut-Ukwa ◽  
Joseph E. Rodriguez ◽  
Samuel N. Quinn ◽  
George Zhou ◽  
Andrew Vanderburg ◽  
...  

Abstract We report the discovery of two short-period massive giant planets from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Both systems, TOI-558 (TIC 207110080) and TOI-559 (TIC 209459275), were identified from the 30 minute cadence full-frame images and confirmed using ground-based photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations from TESS’s follow-up observing program working group. We find that TOI-558 b, which transits an F-dwarf (M * = 1.349 − 0.065 + 0.064 M ⊙, R * = 1.496 − 0.040 + 0.042 R ⊙, T eff = 6466 − 93 + 95 K, age 1.79 − 0.73 + 0.91 Gyr) with an orbital period of 14.574 days, has a mass of 3.61 ± 0.15 M J, a radius of 1.086 − 0.038 + 0.041 R J, and an eccentric (e = 0.300 − 0.020 + 0.022 ) orbit. TOI-559 b transits a G dwarf (M * = 1.026 ± 0.057 M ⊙, R * = 1.233 − 0.026 + 0.028 R ⊙, T eff = 5925 − 76 + 85 K, age 6.8 − 2.0 + 2.5 Gyr) in an eccentric (e = 0.151 ± 0.011) 6.984 days orbit with a mass of 6.01 − 0.23 + 0.24 M J and a radius of 1.091 − 0.025 + 0.028 R J. Our spectroscopic follow up also reveals a long-term radial velocity trend for TOI-559, indicating a long-period companion. The statistically significant orbital eccentricity measured for each system suggests that these planets migrated to their current location through dynamical interactions. Interestingly, both planets are also massive (>3 M J), adding to the population of massive giant planets identified by TESS. Prompted by these new detections of high-mass planets, we analyzed the known mass distribution of hot and warm Jupiters but find no significant evidence for multiple populations. TESS should provide a near magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters, allowing for future detailed population studies.

Author(s):  
G Lacedelli ◽  
L Malavolta ◽  
L Borsato ◽  
G Piotto ◽  
D Nardiello ◽  
...  

Abstract Based on HARPS-N radial velocities (RVs) and TESS photometry, we present a full characterisation of the planetary system orbiting the late G dwarf After the identification of three transiting candidates by TESS, we discovered two additional external planets from RV analysis. RVs cannot confirm the outer TESS transiting candidate, which would also make the system dynamically unstable. We demonstrate that the two transits initially associated with this candidate are instead due to single transits of the two planets discovered using RVs. The four planets orbiting TOI-561 include an ultra-short period (USP) super-Earth (TOI-561 b) with period Pb = 0.45 d, mass Mb = 1.59 ± 0.36 M⊕ and radius Rb = 1.42 ± 0.07 R⊕, and three mini-Neptunes: TOI-561 c, with Pc = 10.78 d, Mc = 5.40 ± 0.98 M⊕, Rc = 2.88 ± 0.09 R⊕; TOI-561 d, with Pd = 25.6 d, Md = 11.9 ± 1.3 M⊕, Rd = 2.53 ± 0.13 R⊕; and TOI-561 e, with Pe = 77.2 d, Me = 16.0 ± 2.3 M⊕, Re = 2.67 ± 0.11 R⊕. Having a density of 3.0 ± 0.8 g cm−3, TOI-561 b is the lowest density USP planet known to date. Our N-body simulations confirm the stability of the system and predict a strong, anti-correlated, long-term transit time variation signal between planets d and e. The unusual density of the inner super-Earth and the dynamical interactions between the outer planets make TOI-561 an interesting follow-up target.


2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S276) ◽  
pp. 221-224
Author(s):  
Eric B. Ford

AbstractRadial velocity surveys have discovered over 400 exoplanets. While measuring eccentricities of low-mass planets remains a challenge, giant exoplanets display a broad range of orbital eccentricities. Recently, spectroscopic measurements during transit have demonstrated that the short-period giant planets (“hot-Jupiters”) also display a broad range of orbital inclinations (relative to the rotation axis of the host star). Both properties pose a challenge for simple disk migration models and suggest that late-stage orbital evolution can play an important role in determining the final architecture of planetary systems. One possible formation mechanism for the inclined hot-Jupiters is some form of eccentricity excitation (e.g., planet scattering, secular perturbations due to a distant planet or wide binary) followed tidal circularization. The planet scattering hypothesis also makes predictions for the population of planets at large separations. Recent discoveries of planets on wide orbits via direct imaging and highly anticipated results from upcoming direct imaging campaigns are poised to provide a new type of constraint on planet formation. This proceedings describes recent progress in understanding the formation of giant exoplanets.


2005 ◽  
Vol 622 (2) ◽  
pp. 1075-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Shkolnik ◽  
G. A. H. Walker ◽  
D. A. Bohlender ◽  
P.‐G. Gu ◽  
M. Kurster

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (S299) ◽  
pp. 386-390
Author(s):  
Rebekah I. Dawson ◽  
Ruth A. Murray-Clay ◽  
John Asher Johnson

AbstractIt was once widely believed that planets formed peacefully in situ in their proto-planetary disks and subsequently remain in place. Instead, growing evidence suggests that many giant planets undergo dynamical rearrangement that results in planets migrating inward in the disk, far from their birthplaces. However, it remains debated whether this migration is caused by smooth planet-disk interactions or violent multi-body interactions. Both classes of model can produce Jupiter-mass planets orbiting within 0.1 AU of their host stars, also known as hot Jupiters. In the latter class of model, another planet or star in the system perturbs the Jupiter onto a highly eccentric orbit, which tidal dissipation subsequently shrinks and circularizes during close passages to the star. We assess the prevalence of smooth vs. violent migration through two studies. First, motivated by the predictions of Socrates et al. (2012), we search for super-eccentric hot Jupiter progenitors by using the “photoeccentric effect” to measure the eccentricities of Kepler giant planet candidates from their transit light curves. We find a significant lack of super- eccentric proto-hot Jupiters compared to the number expected, allowing us to place an upper limit on the fraction of hot Jupiters created by stellar binaries. Second, if both planet-disk and multi-body interactions commonly cause giant planet migration, physical properties of the proto-planetary environment may determine which is triggered. We identify three trends in which giant planets orbiting metal rich stars show signatures of planet-planet interactions: (1) gas giants orbiting within 1 AU of metal-rich stars have a range of eccentricities, whereas those orbiting metal- poor stars are restricted to lower eccentricities; (2) metal-rich stars host most eccentric proto-hot Jupiters undergoing tidal circularization; and (3) the pile-up of short-period giant planets, missing in the Kepler sample, is a feature of metal-rich stars and is largely recovered for giants orbiting metal-rich Kepler host stars. These two studies suggest that both disk migration and planet-planet interactions may be widespread, with the latter occurring primarily in metal-rich planetary systems where multiple giant planets can form. Funded by NSF-GRFP DGE-1144152.


1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (524) ◽  
pp. 765-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Jambor

In previous studies the estimation of the incidence of intellectual changes in multiple sclerosis has varied from as low as 2 per cent. (Cottrell and Wilson, 1926) to as high as 72 per cent. (Ombredane, 1929). In order to establish the incidence accurately, the most satisfactory method would clearly be a long-term follow-up (covering lifetime) of a sample of multiple sclerosis patients. Any cross-sectional study would include patients in varying degrees of advancement of the disease, and patients found to be free of intellectual deficits at the time of investigation would not necessarily remain so. Also, the indirect psychometric assessment of intellectual loss is notoriously difficult, and the direct method of follow-up would give much more accurate results. The only direct study up to date has been that of Canter (1951), who found a highly significant (i.e. 13·48 points) loss on re-testing multiple sclerosis patients on the Army General Classification Test after a four-year period. Even after such a short period as six months he found slight losses on most Wechsler-Bellevue subtests, in contrast to an average gain of six full IQ points of the control group.


2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S276) ◽  
pp. 243-247
Author(s):  
Nawal Husnoo ◽  
Frédéric Pont ◽  
Tsevi Mazeh ◽  
Daniel Fabrycky ◽  
Guillaume Hébrard ◽  
...  

AbstractMost short period transiting exoplanets have circular orbits, as expected from an estimation of the circularisation timescale using classical tidal theory. Interestingly, a small number of short period transiting exoplanets seem to have orbits with a small eccentricity. Such systems are valuable as they may indicate that some key physics is missing from formation and evolution models. We have analysed the results of a campaign of radial velocity measurements of known transiting planets with the SOPHIE and HARPS spectrographs using Bayesian methods and obtained new constraints on the orbital elements of 12 known transiting exoplanets. We also reanalysed the radial velocity data for another 42 transiting systems and show that some of the eccentric orbits reported in the Literature are compatible with a circular orbit. As a result, we show that the systems with circular and eccentric orbits are clearly separated on a plot of the planetary mass versus orbital period. We also show that planets following the trend where heavier hot Jupiters have shorter orbital periods (the “mass-period relation” of hot Jupiters), also tend to have circular orbits, with no confirmed exception to this rule so far.


SICOT-J ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvind G. Kulkarni ◽  
Ankit Patel

ABCs are expansile osteolytic lesions typically containing blood-filled spaces separated by fibrous septae. Standard treatment includes surgical resection or curettage and packing; however, for some spinal lesions, the standard approach is not optimal. One therapeutic strategy is to treat spinal ABC with an agent that targets a pathway that is dysregulated in a disease with similar pathophysiology. Denosumab, a human monoclonal antibody to RANKL is effective in the treatment of GCT's. Spinal ABCs are a therapeutic challenge and local recurrence is a concern. We report a case of aggressive recurrent ABC of dorsal spine in a 14-year old female with progressive neurologic deficit who underwent surgical excision and decompression with a recurrence in a short period for which a decompression and fixation was done. She had a recurrence after an asymptomatic period of 6 months and neurologic worsening. Having ruled out use of embolization and radiotherapy, a remission was achieved by treatment with Denosumab using the regimen for GCTs for a duration of 6 months. Follow-up MRI and CT scans at 24 months following inception of Denosumab depicted complete resolution and no recurrence. We conclude that Denosumab can result in symptomatic and radiological improvement in the recurrent locally aggressive ABC and may be useful in selected cases. Long-term results are mandatory to confirm the efficacy of Denosumab and to evaluate local recurrence after stopping Denosumab.


1987 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
David O. Wiebers ◽  
Jack P. Whisnant ◽  
Thoralf M. Sundt ◽  
W. Michael O'Fallon

✓ The authors report the results of a long-term follow-up study of 130 patients with 161 unruptured intracranial saccular aneurysms. Their findings suggest that unruptured saccular aneurysms less than 10 mm in diameter have a very low probability of subsequent rupture; The mean diameter of the aneurysms that subsequently ruptured was 21.3 mm, compared with a diameter of 7.5 mm for aneurysms defined after rupture at the same institution. Part of the explanation for this discrepancy may be that the size of the filling compartment of the aneurysm decreases after rupture. There is also evidence from the present study that intracranial saccular aneurysms develop with increasing age of the patient and stabilize over a relatively short period, if they do not initially rupture, and that the likelihood of subsequent rupture decreases considerably if the initial stabilized size is less than 10 mm in diameter. Consequently, the critical size for aneurysm rupture is likely to be smaller if rupture occurs at the time of or soon after aneurysm formation. There seems to be a substantial difference in potential for growth and rupture between previously ruptured and unruptured aneurysms.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S329) ◽  
pp. 432-432
Author(s):  
Atsuo T. Okazaki

AbstractAbout one half of high-mass X-ray binaries host a Be star [an OB star with a viscous decretion (slowly outflowing) disk]. These Be/X-ray binaries exhibit two types of X-ray outbursts (Stella et al. 1986), normal X-ray outbursts (LX~1036−37 erg s−1) and occasional giant X-ray outbursts (LX > 1037 erg s−1). The origin of giant X-ray outbursts is unknown. On the other hand, a half of gamma-ray binaries have a Be star as the optical counterpart. One of these systems [LS I +61 303 (Porb = 26.5 d)] shows the superorbital (1,667 d) modulation in radio through X-ray bands. No consensus has been obtained for its origin. In this paper, we study a possibility that both phenomena are caused by a long-term, cyclic evolution of a highly misaligned Be disk under the influence of a compact object, by performing 3D hydrodynamic simulations. We find that the Be disk cyclically evolves in mildly eccentric, short-period systems. Each cycle consists of the following stages: 1)As the Be disk grows with time, the initially circular disk becomes eccentric by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism.2)At some point, the disk is tidally torn off near the base and starts precession.3)Due to precession, a gap opens between the disk base and mass ejection region, which allows the formation of a new disk in the stellar equatorial plane (see Figure 1).4)The newly formed disk finally replaces the precessing old disk. Such a cyclic disk evolution has interesting implications for the long-term behavior of high energy emission in Be/X-ray and gamma-ray binaries.


1997 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.N.C. Lin

AbstractRecent discoveries of planets around other stars suggest that planets are ubiquitous and their dynamical properties are diverse. We reviewed the formation mechanism for protoplanets and the post-formation planet-disk tidal interaction which may have led the short-period planets to their present configuration. We suggest that these planets may be the survivors of a populations of similar planets which have plunged into and contaminated the stellar convection zone. In the context of the solar system, the mass of the giant planets and the present distribution of the minor planets may be used to infer the structure and evolution for the primordial solar nebula. The large eccentricity of 70 Vir and HD 114762 may be due to cohesive collisions in planetary systems which become unstable during their long term orbital evolution.


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