TOI-4201: An Early M Dwarf Hosting a Massive Transiting Jupiter Stretching Theories of Core Accretion
Abstract
We confirm TOI-4201 b as a transiting Jovian-mass planet orbiting an early M dwarf discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Using ground-based photometry and precise radial velocities from NEID and the Planet Finder Spectrograph, we measure a planet mass of ${2.59}_{-0.06}^{+0.07}$ M J, making this one of the most massive planets transiting an M dwarf. The planet is ∼0.4% of the mass of its 0.63 M ⊙ host and may have a heavy-element mass comparable to the total dust mass contained in a typical class II disk. TOI-4201 b stretches our understanding of core accretion during the protoplanetary phase and the disk mass budget, necessitating giant planet formation to take place either much earlier in the disk lifetime or perhaps through alternative mechanisms like gravitational instability. *This paper includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- February 2024
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ad1a19
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2307.06880
- Bibcode:
- 2024ApJ...962L..22D
- Keywords:
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- Exoplanet detection methods;
- Exoplanet astronomy;
- Exoplanet formation;
- Exoplanets;
- Radial velocity;
- Transit photometry;
- Extrasolar gaseous giant planets;
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To be submitted to AAS journals on 14th July 2023