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Hans Publishers, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (642), p. A236, 2020

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038967

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Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488)

Journal article published in 2020 by J. Kemmer ORCID, S. Stock ORCID, D. Kossakowski ORCID, A. Kaminski, K. Molaverdikhani ORCID, M. Schlecker, J. A. Caballero, P. J. Amado, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils, D. Ciardi, K. A. Collins, N. Espinoza, A. Fukui, T. Hirano 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

We present the confirmation and characterisation of GJ 3473 b (G 50–16, TOI-488.01), a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting an M4 dwarf star, whose transiting signal (P = 1.1980035 ± 0.0000018 d) was first detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Through a joint modelling of follow-up radial velocity observations with CARMENES, IRD, and HARPS together with extensive ground-based photometric follow-up observations with LCOGT, MuSCAT, and MuSCAT2, we determined a precise planetary mass, Mb = 1.86 ± 0.30 M, and radius, Rb = 1.264 ± 0.050 R. Additionally, we report the discovery of a second, temperate, non-transiting planet in the system, GJ 3473 c, which has a minimum mass, Mc sin i = 7.41 ± 0.91 M, and orbital period, Pc = 15.509 ± 0.033 d. The inner planet of the system, GJ 3473 b, is one of the hottest transiting Earth-sized planets known thus far, accompanied by a dynamical mass measurement, which makes it a particularly attractive target for thermal emission spectroscopy.