Kavli Affiliate: Andrew M. Vanderburg
| First 5 Authors: Alexis Heitzmann, George Zhou, Samuel N. Quinn, Chelsea X. Huang, Jiayin Dong
| Summary:
We report the discovery of TOI-4562 b (TIC-349576261), a Jovian planet
orbiting a young F7V-type star, younger than the Praesepe/Hyades clusters (<
$700$ Myr). This planet stands out because of its unusually long orbital period
for transiting planets with known masses ($P_{mathrm{orb}}$ =
$225.11781^{+0.00025}_{-0.00022}$ days), and because it has a substantial
eccentricity ($e$ = $0.76^{+0.02}_{-0.02}$). The location of TOI-4562 near the
southern continuous viewing zone of TESS allowed observations throughout 25
sectors, enabling an unambiguous period measurement from TESS alone. Alongside
the four available TESS transits, we performed follow-up photometry using the
South African Astronomical Observatory node of the Las Cumbres Observatory, and
spectroscopy with the CHIRON spectrograph on the 1.5 m SMARTS telescope. We
measure a radius of $1.118_{+0.013}^{-0.014}$ $R_{mathrm{J}}$ and a mass of
$2.30^{+0.48}_{-0.47}$ $M_{mathrm{J}}$ for TOI-4562 b. The radius of the
planet is consistent with contraction models describing the early evolution of
the size of giant planets. We detect tentative transit timing variations at the
$sim$ 20 min level from five transit events, favouring the presence of a
companion that could explain the dynamical history of this system if confirmed
by future follow-up observations. With its current orbital configuration, tidal
timescales are too long for TOI-4562 b to become a hot-Jupiter via high
eccentricity migration, though it is not excluded that interactions with the
possible companion could modify TOI-4562 b eccentricity and trigger
circularization. The characterisation of more such young systems is essential
to set constraints on models describing giant planet evolution.
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