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Oxford University Press, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3(514), p. 4120-4139, 2022

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1448

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TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136

Journal article published in 2022 by Tianjun Gan ORCID, Abderahmane Soubkiou, Sharon X. Wang, Zouhair Benkhaldoun ORCID, Shude Mao, Étienne Artigau, Pascal Fouqué, Luc Arnold, Steven Giacalone, Christopher A. Theissen, Christian Aganze, Adam Burgasser, Karen A. Collins ORCID, Avi Shporer, Khalid Barkaoui ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

ABSTRACT We present the discovery of TOI-2136 b, a sub-Neptune planet transiting a nearby M4.5V-type star every 7.85 d, identified through photometric measurements from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. The host star is located 33 pc away with a radius of R* = 0.34 ± 0.02 R⊙, a mass of $0.34± 0.02 \, \mathrm{M}_{⊙ }$, and an effective temperature of 3342 ± 100 K. We estimate its stellar rotation period to be 75 ± 5 d based on archival long-term photometry. We confirm and characterize the planet based on a series of ground-based multiwavelength photometry, high-angular-resolution imaging observations, and precise radial velocities from Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)/SpectroPolarimètre InfraROUge (SPIRou). Our joint analysis reveals that the planet has a radius of 2.20 ± 0.17 R⊕ and a mass of 6.4 ± 2.4 M⊕. The mass and radius of TOI-2136 b are consistent with a broad range of compositions, from water-ice to gas-dominated worlds. TOI-2136 b falls close to the radius valley for M dwarfs predicted by thermally driven atmospheric mass-loss models, making it an interesting target for future studies of its interior structure and atmospheric properties.