LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS

LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS

We report the first discovery of a thick-disk planet, LHS 1815b (TOI-704b, TIC 260004324), detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) survey. LHS 1815b transits a bright (V = 12.19 mag, K = 7.99 mag) and quiet M dwarf located 29.87 ± 0.02 pc away with a mass of 0.502 ± 0.015 M ⊙ an...

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Main Authors: Gan, Tianjun (Author), Shporer, Abraham-Avi (Author), Livingston, John H. (Author), Collins, Karen A. (Author), Mao, Shude (Author), Trani, Alessandro A. (Author), Gandolfi, Davide (Author), Hirano, Teruyuki (Author), Luque, Rafael (Author), Stassun, Keivan G. (Author), Ziegler, Carl (Author), Howell, Steve B. (Author), Hellier, Coel (Author), Irwin, Jonathan M. (Author), Winters, Jennifer G. (Author), Anderson, David R. (Author), Briceño, César (Author), Law, Nicholas (Author), Mann, Andrew W. (Author), Bonfils, Xavier (Author), Astudillo-Defru, Nicola (Author), Jensen, Eric L. N. (Author), Anglada-Escudé, Guillem (Author), Ricker, George R (Author), Vanderspek, Roland K (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Seager, Sara (Author), Winn, Joshua N. (Author), Jenkins, Jon M. (Author), Furesz, Gabor (Author), Guerrero, Natalia M. (Author), Quintana, Elisa (Author), Twicken, Joseph D. (Author), Caldwell, Douglas A. (Author), Tenenbaum, Peter (Author), Huang, Chelsea X. (Author), Rowden, Pamela (Author), Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Published: American Astronomical Society, 2020-05-15T14:04:29Z.
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