Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. III. A study of ten systems enhanced with new ground-based photometry

TL;DR

This study used TESS and ground-based photometry to search for low-mass planets near ten hot Jupiter systems, finding null results and refining transit parameters, thus supporting high-eccentricity migration theories.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive null result survey for additional planets in hot Jupiter systems with improved transit data and refines existing planetary parameters.

Findings

No additional low-mass planets detected near the ten hot Jupiters.

Refuted previous claims of transit timing variations for HAT-P-12 b.

Tighter constraints on third bodies in HAT-P-19 and HAT-P-32 systems.

Abstract

The loneliness of hot Jupiters supports the high-eccentricity migration as a primary path leading to the formation of systems with those planets stripped of any close-in planetary companions. Here we present the null results of searches for low-mass planets close to hot Jupiters in 10 planetary systems: HAT-P-4, HAT-P-10, HAT-P-12, HAT-P-17, HAT-P-19, HAT-P-32, HAT-P-44, Qatar-6, TrES-4, and WASP-48. We employed multi-sector time-series photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite enhanced with new ground-based transit light curves to determine the sizes of hypothetical planets that might still avoid being detected. We redetermined transit parameters for the known hot Jupiters using a homogenous approach. We refuted transit timing variations for HAT-P-12 b, claimed recently in the literature. The transit timing data permitted us to place tighter constraints on third bodies in HAT-P-19 and HAT-P-32 systems detected in Doppler measurements. We also study four multi-periodic pulsating variable stars in the field around HAT-P-17.