TESS-Keck Survey XIV: 2 giant exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06958


We present the Distant Giants Survey, a three-year radial velocity (RV) campaign to measure the conditional occurrence of distant giant planets (M_p ~ 0.3 – 13 M_J, P ~100 days – 12 years) in systems hosting close-in small planets, P(DG|CS). For the past two years, we have monitored 47 Sun-like stars hosting small transiting planets (R_p < 10 R_E) detected by TESS. We present the selection criteria used to assemble our sample and report the discovery of two distant giant planets, TOI-1669 c and TOI-1694 c. For TOI-1669 c we find that Msin i = 0.602 +/- 0.078 M_J and P = 501 +/- 16 days, while for TOI-1694 c, Msin i = 0.929 +/- 0.037 M_J and P = 393.2 +/- 4.3 days. We also measured a true mass of M = 31.1 +/- 2.1 M_E for the 3.8-day transiting planet TOI-1694 b. Planets with mass ~30 M_E are rare at periods <~10 days, suggesting that TOI-1694 b may have reached its current location through dynamical interactions with its outer neighbor. At the end of the Distant Giants Survey, we will incorporate TOI-1669 c and TOI-1694 c into our calculation of P(DG|CS), a crucial statistic for understanding the relationship between outer giants and small inner companions.

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J. Zandt, E. Petigura, M. MacDougall, et. al.
Fri, 16 Sep 22
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