KEPLER-424 b: A "LONELY'' HOT JUPITER THAT FOUND A COMPANION

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  • Michael Endl
  • Douglas A. Caldwell
  • Thomas Barclay
  • Daniel Huber
  • Howard Isaacson
  • Buchhave, Lars A.
  • Erik Brugamyer
  • Paul Robertson
  • William D. Cochran
  • Phillip J. MacQueen
  • Mathieu Havel
  • Phillip Lucas
  • Steve B. Howell
  • Debra Fischer
  • Elisa Quintana
  • David R. Ciardi
Hot Jupiter systems provide unique observational constraints for migration models in multiple systems and binaries. We report on the discovery of the Kepler-424 (KOI-214) two-planet system, which consists of a transiting hot Jupiter (Kepler-424b) in a 3.31 day orbit accompanied by a more massive outer companion in an eccentric (e = 0.3) 223 day orbit. The outer giant planet, Kepler-424c, is not detected transiting the host star. The masses of both planets and the orbital parameters for the second planet were determined using precise radial velocity (RV) measurements from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) and its High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS). In stark contrast to smaller planets, hot Jupiters are predominantly found to be lacking any nearby additional planets; they appear to be "lonely". This might be a consequence of these systems having a highly dynamical past. The Kepler-424 planetary system has a hot Jupiter in a multiple system, similar to Andromedae. We also present our results for Kepler-422 (KOI-22), Kepler-77 (KOI-127), Kepler-43 (KOI-135), and Kepler-423 (KOI-183). These results are based on spectroscopic data collected with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), the Keck 1 telescope, and HET. For all systems, we rule out false positives based on various follow-up observations, confirming the planetary nature of these companions. We performed a comparison with planetary evolutionary models which indicate that these five hot Jupiters have heavy element contents between 20 and 120 M .
Original languageEnglish
Article number151
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume795
Issue number2
ISSN0004-637X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2014

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