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American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Journal, 5(161), p. 235, 2021

DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abeaa1

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A Transiting Warm Giant Planet around the Young Active Star TOI-201

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Abstract We present the confirmation of the eccentric warm giant planet TOI-201 b, first identified as a candidate in Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite photometry (Sectors 1–8, 10–13, and 27–28) and confirmed using ground-based photometry from Next Generation Transit Survey and radial velocities from FEROS, HARPS, CORALIE, and Minerva-Australis. TOI-201 b orbits a young ( ) and bright (V = 9.07 mag) F-type star with a 52.9781 day period. The planet has a mass of , a radius of , and an orbital eccentricity of it appears to still be undergoing fairly rapid cooling, as expected given the youth of the host star. The star also shows long-term variability in both the radial velocities and several activity indicators, which we attribute to stellar activity. The discovery and characterization of warm giant planets such as TOI-201 b are important for constraining formation and evolution theories for giant planets.