Discovery and mass measurement of the hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet, GJ 3929 b

Kemmer, J.; Dreizler, S.; Kossakowski, D.; Stock, S.; Quirrenbach, A.; Caballero, J. A.; Amado, P. J.; Collins, K. A.; Espinoza, N.; Herrero, E.; Jenkins, J. M.; Latham, D. W.; Lillo-Box, J.; Narita, N.; Pallé, E.; Reiners, A.; Ribas, I.; Ricker, G.; Rodríguez, E.; Seager, S.; Vanderspek, R.; Wells, R.; Winn, J.; Aceituno, F. J.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Barclay, T.; Bluhm, P.; Chaturvedi, P.; Cifuentes, C.; Collins, K. I.; Cortés-Contreras, M.; Demory, B. -O.; Fausnaugh, M. M.; Fukui, A.; Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y.; Galadí-Enríquez, D.; Gan, T.; Gillon, M.; Golovin, A.; Hatzes, A. P.; Henning, Th.; Huang, C.; Jeffers, S. V.; Kaminski, A.; Kunimoto, M.; Kürster, M.; López-González, M. J.; Lafarga, M.; Luque, R.; McCormac, J.; Molaverdikhani, K.; Montes, D.; Morales, J. C.; Passegger, V. M.; Reffert, S.; Sabin, L.; Schöfer, P.; Schanche, N.; Schlecker, M.; Schroffenegger, U.; Schwarz, R. P.; Schweitzer, A.; Sota, A.; Tenenbaum, P.; Trifonov, T.; Vanaverbeke, S.; Zechmeister, M.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2022
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67
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We report the discovery of GJ 3929 b, a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting the nearby M3.5 V dwarf star, GJ 3929 (G 180-18, TOI-2013). Joint modelling of photometric observations from TESS sectors 24 and 25 together with 73 spectroscopic observations from CARMENES and follow-up transit observations from SAINT-EX, LCOGT, and OSN yields a planet radius of Rb = 1.150 ± 0.040 R⊕, a mass of Mb = 1.21 ± 0.42 M⊕, and an orbital period of Pb = 2.6162745 ± 0.0000030 d. The resulting density of ρb = 4.4 ± 1.6 g cm−3 is compatible with the Earth's mean density of about 5.5 g cm−3. Due to the apparent brightness of the host star (J = 8.7 mag) and its small size, GJ 3929 b is a promising target for atmospheric characterisation with the JWST. Additionally, the radial velocity data show evidence for another planet candidate with P[c] = 14.303 ± 0.035 d, which is likely unrelated to the stellar rotation period, Prot = 122 ± 13 d, which we determined from archival HATNet and ASAS-SN photometry combined with newly obtained TJO data.

RV data and stellar activity indices are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/659/A17

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