Bibcode
Šubjak, J.; Endl, M.; Chaturvedi, P.; Karjalainen, R.; Cochran, W. D.; Esposito, M.; Gandolfi, D.; Lam, K. W. F.; Stassun, K.; Žák, J.; Lodieu, N.; Boffin, H. M. J.; MacQueen, P. J.; Hatzes, A.; Guenther, E. W.; Georgieva, I.; Grziwa, S.; Schmerling, H.; Skarka, M.; Blažek, M.; Karjalainen, M.; Špoková, M.; Isaacson, H.; Howard, A. W.; Burke, C. J.; Van Eylen, V.; Falk, B.; Fridlund, M.; Goffo, E.; Jenkins, J. M.; Korth, J.; Lissauer, J. J.; Livingston, J. H.; Luque, R.; Muresan, A.; Osborn, H. P.; Pallé, E.; Persson, C. M.; Redfield, S.; Ricker, G. R.; Seager, S.; Serrano, L. M.; Smith, A. M. S.; Kabáth, P.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
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6
2022
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12
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11
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We report the discovery of TOI-1268b, a transiting Saturn-mass planet from the TESS space mission. With an age of less than 1 Gyr, derived from various age indicators, TOI-1268b is the youngest Saturn-mass planet known to date; it contributes to the small sample of well-characterised young planets. It has an orbital period of P = 8.1577080 ± 0.0000044 days, and transits an early K-dwarf star with a mass of M* = 0.96 ± 0.04 M⊙, a radius of R* = 0.92 ± 0.06 R⊙, an effective temperature of Teff = 5300 ± 100 K, and a metallicity of 0.36 ± 0.06 dex. By combining TESS photometry with high-resolution spectra acquired with the Tull spectrograph at the McDonald Observatory, and the high-resolution spectrographs at the Tautenburg and Ondřejov Observatories, we measured a planetary mass of Mp = 96.4 ± 8.3 M⊕ and a radius of Rp = 9.1 ± 0.6 R⊕. TOI-1268 is an ideal system for studying the role of star-planet tidal interactions for non-inflated Saturn-mass planets. We used system parameters derived in this paper to constrain the planet's tidal quality factor to the range of 104.5-5.3. When compared with the sample of other non-inflated Saturn-mass planets, TOI-1268b is one of the best candidates for transmission spectroscopy studies.
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