Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey. VI. Confirmation of a Long-period Giant Planet Discovered with a Single TESS Transit

Essack, Zahra; Dragomir, Diana; Dalba, Paul A.; Battley, Matthew P.; Ciardi, David R.; Collins, Karen A.; Howell, Steve B.; Jones, Matias I.; Kane, Stephen R.; Mamajek, Eric E.; Mann, Christopher R.; Mireles, Ismael; Oddo, Dominic; Sgro, Lauren A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Ulmer-Moll, Solene; Watkins, Cristilyn N.; Yee, Samuel W.; Ziegler, Carl; Bieryla, Allyson; Apergis, Ioannis; Barkaoui, Khalid; Brahm, Rafael; Bryant, Edward M.; Esposito, Thomas M.; Figueira, Pedro; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Gill, Samuel; Howard, Andrew W.; Isaacson, Howard; Kendall, Alicia; Law, Nicholas; Lund, Michael B.; Mann, Andrew W.; Matson, Rachel A.; Murgas, Felipe; Palle, Enric; Quinn, Samuel N.; Revol, Alexandre; Saha, Suman; Schwarz, Richard P.; Sefako, Ramotholo; Shporer, Avi; Strakhov, Ivan A.; Villanueva, Steven; Ricker, George R.; Vanderspek, Roland; Latham, David W.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Bosch-Cabot, Pau; Collins, Kevin I.; Forés-Toribio, Raquel; Rodriguez Frustagia, Fabian; Girardin, Eric; Helm, Ian J.; Lewin, Pablo; Muñoz, Jose A.; Newman, Patrick; Plavchan, Peter; Srdoc, Gregor; Stockdale, Chris; Wünsche, Anaël; Billiani, Mario; Davy, Martin; Douvas, Alex; Fukui, Keiichi; Guillet, Bruno; Ostrem, Cory; Rushton, Michael; Schmidt, Angsar; Finardi, Andrea; Girard, Patrice; Goto, Tateki; de Lambilly, Julien S.; Leroux, Liouba; Mortecrette, Fabrice; Pickering, John W.; Primm, Michael; Ribot, Marc; Teng, Ethan; Verveen, Aad; Will, Stefan; Ziegler, Mark
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The Astronomical Journal

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2025
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We report the discovery and confirmation of TOI-4465 b, a 1.25RJ ‑0.07RJ+0.08RJ , 5.89MJ ± 0.26MJ giant planet orbiting a G dwarf star at d ≃ 122 pc. The planet was detected as a single-transit event in data from Sector 40 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Radial velocity (RV) observations of TOI-4465 showed a planetary signal with an orbital period of ∼102 days and an orbital eccentricity of e = 0.24 ± 0.01. TESS reobserved TOI-4465 in Sector 53 and Sector 80 but did not detect another transit of TOI-4465 b, as the planet was not expected to transit during these observations based on the RV period. A global ground-based photometry campaign was initiated to observe another transit of TOI-4465 b after the RV period determination. The ∼12 hr long transit event was captured from multiple sites around the world and included observations from 24 citizen scientists, confirming the orbital period as ∼102 days. TOI-4465 b is a relatively dense (3.73 ± 0.53 g cm‑3), temperate (375–478 K) giant planet. Based on giant planet structure models, TOI-4465 b appears to be enriched in heavy elements at a level consistent with late-stage accretion of icy planetesimals. Additionally, we explore TOI-4465 b's potential for atmospheric characterization and obliquity measurement. Increasing the number of long-period planets by confirming single-transit events is crucial for understanding the frequency and demographics of planet populations in the outer regions of planetary systems.