K2-110 b: a massive mini-Neptune exoplanet
Date
08/2017Author
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ST/M001296/1
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Abstract
We report the discovery of the exoplanet K2-110 b (previously EPIC212521166b) from K2 photometry orbiting in a 13.8637d period around an old, metal-poor K3 dwarf star. With a V-band magnitude of 11.9,K2-110 is particularly amenable to RV follow-up. A joint analysis of K2 photometry and high-precision RVs from 28 HARPS and HARPS-N spectra reveal it to have a radius of 2.6 ± 0.1R⊕ and amass of 16.7 ± 3.2M⊕, hence a density of 5.2± 1.2 g cm-3, making it one of the most massive planets yet to be found with a sub-Neptune radius. When accounting for compression, the resulting Earth-like density is best fitted by a 0.2M⊕ hydrogen atmosphere over an 16.5M⊕ Earth-like interior, although the planet could also have significant water content. At 0.1 AU, even taking into account the old stellar age of 8 ± 3 Gyr, the planet is unlikely to have been significantly affected by EUV evaporation. However the planet likely disc-migrated to its current position making the lack of a thick H2 atmosphere puzzling. This analysis has made K2-110 b one of the best-characterised mini-Neptunes with density constrained to less than 30%.
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Osborn , H P , Santerne , A , Barros , S C C , Santos , N C , Dumusque , X , Malavolta , L , Armstrong , D J , Hojjatpanah , S , Demangeon , O , Adibekyan , V , Almenara , J-M , Barrado , D , Bayliss , D , Boisse , I , Bouchy , F , Brown , D J A , Cameron , A C , Charbonneau , D , Deleuil , M , Delgado Mena , E , Díaz , R F , Hébrard , G , Kirk , J , King , G W , Lam , K W F , Latham , D , Lillo-Box , J , Louden , T M , Lovis , C , Marmier , M , McCormac , J , Molinari , E , Pepe , F , Pollacco , D , Sousa , S G , Udry , S & Walker , S R 2017 , ' K2-110 b: a massive mini-Neptune exoplanet ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 604 , A19 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628932
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Peer reviewed
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0004-6361Type
Journal article
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© 2017, ESO. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at www.aanda.org / https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628932
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