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EDP Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (675), p. A39, 2023

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346406

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Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS

Journal article published in 2023 by Angelica Psaridi ORCID, François Bouchy ORCID, Monika Lendl ORCID, Babatunde Akinsanmi ORCID, Keivan G. Stassun ORCID, Barry Smalley ORCID, David J. Armstrong ORCID, Saburo Howard ORCID, Solène Ulmer-Moll ORCID, Nolan Grieves ORCID, Khalid Barkaoui ORCID, Joseph E. Rodriguez ORCID, Edward M. Bryant ORCID, Olga Suárez ORCID, Tristan Guillot ORCID and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

While the sample of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, the population of transiting exoplanets around early-type stars is still limited. These planets allow us to investigate the planet properties and formation pathways over a wide range of stellar masses and study the impact of high irradiation on hot Jupiters orbiting such stars. We report the discovery of TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b, three Saturn-mass planets transiting main sequence, F-type stars. The planets were identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and confirmed with complementary ground-based and radial velocity observations. TOI-615b is a highly irradiated (~1277 F) and bloated Saturn-mass planet (1.69−0.06+0.05 RJup and 0.43−0.08+0.09 MJup) in a 4.66 day orbit transiting a 6850 K star. TOI-622b has a radius of 0.82−0.03+0.03 RJup and a mass of 0.30−0.08+0.07 MJup in a 6.40 day orbit. Despite its high insolation flux (~600 F), TOI-622b does not show any evidence of radius inflation. TOI-2641b is a 0.39−0.04+0.02 MJup planet in a 4.88 day orbit with a grazing transit (b = 1.04−0.06+0.05) that results in a poorly constrained radius of 1.61−0.64+0.46 RJup. Additionally, TOI-615b is considered attractive for atmospheric studies via transmission spectroscopy with ground-based spectrographs and JWST. Future atmospheric and spin-orbit alignment observations are essential since they can provide information on the atmospheric composition, formation, and migration of exoplanets across various stellar types.