RT Journal Article
T1 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: three temperate-to-warm super-Earths
A1 Caballero, J. A.
A1 Cortés Contreras, Miriam
A1 Montes Gutiérrez, David
AB We announce the discovery of two planets orbiting the M dwarfs GJ 251 (0.360 ± 0.015 Mꙩ) and HD 238090 (0.578 ± 0.021 Mꙩ) based on CARMENES radial velocity (RV) data. In addition, we independently confirm with CARMENES data the existence of Lalande 21185 b, a planet that has recently been discovered with the SOPHIE spectrograph. All three planets belong to the class of warm or temperate super-Earths and share similar properties. The orbital periods are 14.24 d, 13.67 d, and 12.95 d and the minimum masses are 4.0 ± 0.4 Mꙩ, 6.9 ± 0.9 Mꙩ, and 2.7 ± 0.3 Mꙩ for GJ 251 b, HD 238090 b, and Lalande 21185 b, respectively. Based on the orbital and stellar properties, we estimate equilibrium temperatures of 351.0±1.4 K for GJ 251 b, 469.6±2.6 K for HD 238090 b, and 370.1 ± 6.8 K for Lalande 21185 b. For the latter we resolve the daily aliases that were present in the SOPHIE data and that hindered an unambiguous determination of the orbital period. We find no significant signals in any of our spectral activity indicators at the planetary periods. The RV observations were accompanied by contemporaneous photometric observations. We derive stellar rotation periods of 122.1 ± 2.2 d and 96.7 ± 3.7 d for GJ 251 and HD 238090, respectively. The RV data of all three stars exhibit significant signals at the rotational period or its first harmonic. For GJ 251 and Lalande 21185, we also find long-period signals around 600 d, and 2900 d, respectively, which we tentatively attribute to long-term magnetic cycles. We apply a Bayesian approach to carefully model the Keplerian signals simultaneously with the stellar activity using Gaussian process regression models and extensively search for additional significant planetary signals hidden behind the stellar activity. Current planet formation theories suggest that the three systems represent a common architecture, consistent with formation following the core accretion paradigm.
PB EDP Sciencies
SN 0004-6361
YR 2020
FD 2020-11-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7673
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7673
LA eng
NO © ESO 2020. Artículo firmado por 40 autores. We thank the anonymous referee, whose comments improved this work. This work was supported by the DFG Research Unit FOR2544 “Blue Planets around Red Stars”, project no. RE 2694/4-1. CARMENES is an instrument for the Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán (CAHA) at Calar Alto (Almería, Spain), operated jointly by the Junta de Andalucía and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC). CARMENES was funded by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through projects FICTS2011-02, ICTS-2017-07-CAHA-4, and CAHA16-CE-3978, and the members of the CARMENES Consortium (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Landessternwarte Königstuhl, Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, Insitut für Astrophysik Göttingen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Hamburger Sternwarte, Centro de Astrobiología and Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán), with additional contributions by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, the German Science Foundation through the Major Research Instrumentation Program and DFG Research Unit FOR2544 “Blue Planets around Red Stars”, the Klaus Tschira Stiftung, the states of Baden-Württemberg and Niedersachsen, and by the Junta de Andalucía. We acknowledge financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the ERDF through projects PID2019-109522GB-C51/2/3/4 PGC2018-098153-B-C33 AYA2016-79425-C3-1/2/3-P, ESP2016-80435-C2-1- R, and the Centre of Excellence “Severo Ochoa” and “María de Maeztu” awards to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (SEV-2015-0548), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (SEV-2017-0709), and Centro de Astrobiología (MDM2017-0737), the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme, and the NASA Grant NNX17AG24G. LCOGT observations were partially acquired via program number TAU2019A-002 of the Wise Observatory, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. This paper includes data collected by the TESS mission, which are publicly available from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). The analysis of this work has made use of a wide variety of public available software packages that are not referenced in the manuscript: Exo-Striker (Trifonov 2019), astropy Astropy Collaboration et al. (2018), scipy (Virtanen et al. 2020), numpy (Oliphant 2006), matplotlib (Hunter 2007), tqdm (da Costa-Luis 2019), pandas (The pandas development team 2020), and seaborn (Waskom et al. 2020).
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)/FEDER
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)/FEDER
NO the DFG Research Unit FOR2544 “Blue Planets around Red Stars”
NO Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa y María de Maeztu
NO Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)
NO the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
NO Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
NO Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
NO Landessternwarte Königstuhl
NO Institut de Ciències de l’Espai
NO Insitut für Astrophysik Göttingen
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
NO Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
NO Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
NO Hamburger Sternwarte
NO Centro de Astrobiología and Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán
NO the Spanish Ministry of Economy
NO the German Science Foundation through the Major Research Instrumentation Program
NO the Klaus Tschira Stiftung
NO the states of Baden-Württemberg and Niedersachsen
NO Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
NO Centro de Astrobiología
NO the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme
NO the NASA
NO the Wise Observatory, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025