Planets around the evolved stars 24 Booties and $\gamma$ Libra: A 30d-period planet and a double giant-planet system in possible 7:3 MMR

TL;DR

This study reports the discovery of a short-period planet around 24 Booties and a possible 7:3 mean-motion resonance in a double giant-planet system around gamma Libra, both around evolved, metal-poor stars.

Contribution

First detection of a 30-day period planet around an evolved star and evidence for a 7:3 MMR in a multi-planet system around a low-metallicity giant star.

Findings

24 Boo hosts a 0.91 M_Jup planet with a 30.35-day period.

Gamma Lib hosts two planets with periods of 415 and 964 days.

The gamma Lib system may be in a 7:3 mean-motion resonance.

Abstract

We report the detection of planets around two evolved giant stars from radial velocity measurements at Okayama Astrophysical observatory. 24 Boo (G3IV) has a mass of $0.99\,M_{\odot}$, a radius of $10.64\,R_{\odot}$, and a metallicity of ${\rm [Fe/H]}=-0.77$. The star hosts one planet with a minimum mass of $0.91\,M_{\rm Jup}$ and an orbital period of $30.35{\rm d}$. The planet has one of the shortest orbital periods among those ever found around evolved stars by radial-veloocity methods. The stellar radial velocities show additional periodicity with $150{\rm d}$, which are probably attributed to stellar activity. The star is one of the lowest-metallicity stars orbited by planets currently known. $\gamma$ Lib (K0III) is also a metal-poor giant with a mass of $1.47\,M_{\odot}$, a radius of $11.1\,R_{\odot}$, and ${\rm [Fe/H]}=-0.30$. The star hosts two planets with minimum masses of $1.02M_{\rm Jup}$ and $4.58\,M_{\rm Jup}$, and periods of $415{\rm d}$ and $964{\rm d}$, respectively. The star has the second lowest metallicity among the giant stars hosting more than two planets. Dynamical stability analysis for the $\gamma$ Lib system sets a minimum orbital inclination angle to be about $70^{\circ}$ and suggests that the planets are in 7:3 mean-motion resonance, though the current best-fitted orbits to the radial-velocity data are not totally regular.