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Rodríguez Martínez, Romy; Eastman, Jason D.; Collins, Karen A.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Charbonneau, David; Quinn, Samuel N.; Latham, David W.; Ziegler, Carl; Brahm, Rafael; Fairnington, Tyler R.; Ulmer-Moll, SolÉne; Stassun, Keivan G.; Suarez, Olga; Guillot, Tristan; Hobson, Melissa J.; Winn, Joshua N.; Kanodia, Shubham; Schlecker, Martin; Butler, R. P.; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Shectman, Steve; Teske, Johanna K.; Osip, David; Beletsky, Yuri; Battley, Matthew P.; Psaridi, Angelica; Figueira, Pedro; Lendl, Monika; Bouchy, François; Udry, Stéphane; Kunimoto, Michelle; Mékarnia, Djamel; Abe, Lyu; Trifonov, Trifon; Pinto, Marcelo Tala; Eberhardt, Jan; Espinoza, Nestor; Henning, Thomas; Jordán, Andrés; Rojas, Felipe I.; Barkaoui, Khalid; Relles, Howard M.; Srdoc, Gregor; Collins, Kevin I.; Seager, Sara; Shporer, Avi; Vezie, Michael; Hedges, Christina; Mireles, Ismael
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The Astronomical Journal
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2025
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We present the detection and characterization of TOI-4994b (TIC 277128619b), a warm Saturn-sized planet discovered by the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TOI-4994b transits a G-type star (V = 12.6 mag) with a mass, radius, and effective temperature of M⋆=1.005‑0.061+0.064M⊙ , R⋆=1.055‑0.037+0.040R⊙ , and Teff = 5640 ± 110 K. We obtained follow-up ground-based photometry from the Las Cumbres Observatory and the Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescopes, and we confirmed the planetary nature of TOI-4994b with multiple radial velocity observations from the Planet Finder Spectrograph, CHIRON, High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph, and CORALIE instruments. From a global fit to the photometry and radial velocities, we determine that TOI-4994b is in a 21.5 day eccentric orbit (e = 0.32 ± 0.04) and has a mass of MP=0.280‑0.034+0.037MJ , a radius of RP=0.762‑0.027+0.030RJ , and a Saturn-like bulk density of ρp=0.78‑0.14+0.16gcm-3 . We find that TOI-4994 is a potentially viable candidate for follow-up stellar obliquity measurements. TOI-4994b joins the small sample of warm Saturn analogs and thus sheds light on our understanding of these rare and unique worlds. *This paper includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.