A 43 day transiting Neptune and two 25 day Saturns from TESS, NGTS and ASTEP
Alicia Kendall, Sol\`ene Ulmer-Moll, Samuel Gill, Matthew R. Burleigh, Michael R. Goad, David R. Anderson, Edward M. Bryant, Baptiste Lavie, Maddalena Bugatti, Javier A. Acevedo Barroso, Michal Steiner, Diana Dragomir, Steven Villanueva Jr., Daniel J. Stevens, Arvind F. Gupta

TL;DR
This paper reports the discovery and characterization of three long-period transiting gas giants, including a Neptune and two Saturns, using TESS, NGTS, ASTEP, and radial velocity follow-up, providing valuable data for understanding planet formation.
Contribution
It presents the first detailed characterization of a long-period Neptune and two Saturns discovered via combined space-based and ground-based observations, expanding knowledge of distant gas giants.
Findings
NGTS-34b: 43-day orbit, 3.65 R⊕, 19.1 M⊕, suitable for JWST studies.
TOI-4940b: 25.87-day orbit, 6.61 R⊕, upper mass limit <89 M⊕.
NGTS-35b: 25.24-day orbit, 10.90 R⊕, 152 M⊕, moderately eccentric.
Abstract
Beyond orbital periods of 10 days, there is a dearth of known transiting gas giants. On longer orbits, planets are less affected by their host star, and become ideal probes of planet formation, migration and evolution. We report the discovery of a long period Neptune and two Saturns, each initially identified as single transits in the TESS photometry, and solved through additional transits from ground-based follow-up photometric observations by NGTS and ASTEP. High-resolution radial velocity mass measurements using CORALIE and HARPS confirm their planetary nature. From joint modelling of the photometric and spectroscopic data, we determine an orbital period of days, radius of , and mass of for NGTS-34b, making it one of the longest period well-characterized transiting Neptunes.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstro and Planetary Science · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
