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Title: A super-Earth on a close-in orbit around the M1V star GJ 740 A HADES and CARMENES collaboration
Authors: Toledo Padrón, B.
Suárez Mascareño, A.
González Hernández, J. I.
Rebolo, R.
Pinamonti, M.
Perger, M.
Scandariato, G.
Damasso, M.
Sozzetti, A.
Moldonado, J.
Desidera, S.
Ribas, I.
Micela, G.
Affer, L.
González Álvarez, E.
Leto, G.
Pagano, I.
Zanmar Sánchez, R.
Giacobbe, P.
Herrero, E.
Morales, J. C.
Amado, P. J.
Caballero, J. A.
Quirrenbach, A.
Reiners, A.
Zechmeister, M.
Keywords: Techniques: radial velocities;Techniques: photometric;Instrumentation: spectrographs;Stars: individual: GJ 740;Stars: activity;Planets and satellites: detection
Issue Date: 7-Apr-2021
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040099
Published version: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/04/aa40099-20/aa40099-20.html
Citation: Astronomy and Astrophysics 648: A20(2021)
Abstract: Context. M-dwarfs have proven to be ideal targets for planetary radial velocity (RV) searches due to their higher planet-star mass contrast, which favors the detection of low-mass planets. The abundance of super-Earth and Earth-like planets detected around this type of star motivates further such research on hosts without reported planetary companions. Aims. The HADES and CARMENES programs are aimed at carrying out extensive searches of exoplanetary systems around M-type stars in the northern hemisphere, allowing us to address, in a statistical sense, the properties of the planets orbiting these objects. In this work, we perform a spectroscopic and photometric study of one of the program stars (GJ 740), which exhibits a short-period RV signal that is compatible with a planetary companion. Methods. We carried out a spectroscopic analysis based on 129 HARPS-N spectra taken over a time span of 6 yr combined with 57 HARPS spectra taken over 4 yr, as well as 32 CARMENES spectra taken during more than 1 yr, resulting in a dataset with a time coverage of 10 yr. We also relied on 459 measurements from the public ASAS survey with a time-coverage of 8 yr, along with 5 yr of photometric magnitudes from the EXORAP project taken in the V, B, R, and I filters to carry out a photometric study. Both analyses were made using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations and Gaussian process regression to model the activity of the star. Results. We present the discovery of a short-period super-Earth with an orbital period of 2.37756−0.00011+0.00013 d and a minimum mass of 2.96−0.48+0.50 M⊕. We offer an update to the previously reported characterization of the magnetic cycle and rotation period of the star, obtaining values of Prot = 35.563 ± 0.071 d and Pcycle = 2800 ± 150 d. Furthermore, the RV time series exhibits a possibly periodic long-term signal, which might be related to a Saturn-mass planet of ~100 M⊕.
Description: RV data are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/648/A20 Based on observations made with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), operated on the island of La Palma by the INAF - Fundación Galileo Galilei at the Roche de Los Muchachos Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC); and the CARMENES instrument installed at the 3.5m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory, Spain.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/741
E-ISSN: 1432-0746
ISSN: 0004-6361
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