TOI-1231 b: a temperate, Neptune-sized planet transiting the nearby M3 dwarf NLTT 24399

Jennifer A. Burt; Diana Dragomir; Paul Mollière; Allison Youngblood; Antonio García Muñoz; John McCann; Laura Kreidberg; Chelsea X. Huang; Karen A. Collins; Jason D. Eastman; Lyu Abe; Jose M. Almenara; Ian J. M. Crossfield; Carl Ziegler; Joseph E. Rodriguez; Eric E. Mamajek; Keivan G. Stassun; Samuel P. Halverson; Steven Jr Villanueva; R. Paul Butler; Sharon Xuesong Wang; Richard P. Schwarz; George R. Ricker; Roland Vanderspek; David W. Latham; S. Seager; Joshua N. Winn; Jon M. Jenkins; Abdelkrim Agabi; Xavier Bonfils; David Ciardi; Marion Cointepas; Jeffrey D. Crane; Nicolas Crouzet; Georgina Dransfield; Fabo Feng; Elise Furlan; Tristan Guillot; Arvind F. Gupta; Steve B. Howell; Eric L. N. Jensen; Nicholas Law; Andrew W. Mann; Wenceslas Marie-Sainte; Rachel A. Matson; Elisabeth C. Matthews; Djamel Mékarnia; Joshua Pepper; Nic Scott; Stephen A. Shectman; Joshua E. Schlieder; François-Xavier Schmider; Daniel J. Stevens; Johanna K. Teske; Amaury H. M. J. Triaud; David Charbonneau; Zachory K. Berta-Thompson; Christopher J. Burke; Tansu Daylan; Thomas Barclay; Bill Wohler; C. E. Brasseur

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TOI-1231 b: a temperate, Neptune-sized planet transiting the nearby M3 dwarf NLTT 24399

Jennifer A. Burt, Diana Dragomir, Paul Mollière, Allison Youngblood, Antonio García Muñoz, John McCann, Laura Kreidberg, Chelsea X. Huang, Karen A. Collins, Jason D. Eastman, Lyu Abe, Jose M. Almenara, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Carl Ziegler, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Eric E. Mamajek, Keivan G. Stassun, Samuel P. Halverson, Steven Jr Villanueva, R. Paul ButlerSharon Xuesong Wang, Richard P. Schwarz, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, David W. Latham, S. Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Abdelkrim Agabi, Xavier Bonfils, David Ciardi, Marion Cointepas, Jeffrey D. Crane, Nicolas Crouzet, Georgina Dransfield, Fabo Feng, Elise Furlan, Tristan Guillot, Arvind F. Gupta, Steve B. Howell, Eric L. N. Jensen, Nicholas Law, Andrew W. Mann, Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, Rachel A. Matson, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Djamel Mékarnia, Joshua Pepper, Nic Scott, Stephen A. Shectman, Joshua E. Schlieder, François-Xavier Schmider, Daniel J. Stevens, Johanna K. Teske, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Christopher J. Burke, Tansu Daylan, Thomas Barclay, Bill Wohler, C. E. Brasseur

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We report the discovery of a transiting, temperate, Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby (d = 27.5 pc), M3V star TOI-1231 (NLTT 24399, L 248-27, 2MASS J10265947-5228099). The planet was detected using photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and followed up with observations from the Las Cumbres Observatory and the Antarctica Search for Transiting ExoPlanets program. Combining the photometric data sets, we find that the newly discovered planet has a radius of 3.65_-0.15^+0.16R_⊕ and an orbital period of 24.246 days. Radial velocity measurements obtained with the Planet Finder Spectrograph on the Magellan Clay telescope confirm the existence of the planet and lead to a mass measurement of 15.5 ± 3.3 M_⊕. With an equilibrium temperature of just 330 K, TOI-1231 b is one of the coolest small planets accessible for atmospheric studies thus far, and its host star's bright near-infrared brightness (J = 8.88, K_s = 8.07) makes it an exciting target for the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Future atmospheric observations would enable the first comparative planetology efforts in the 250–350 K temperature regime via comparisons with K2-18 b. Furthermore, TOI-1231's high systemic radial velocity (70.5 km s⁻¹) may allow for the detection of low-velocity hydrogen atoms escaping the planet by Doppler, shifting the H i Lyα stellar emission away from the geocoronal and interstellar medium absorption features.

Original language	English
Article number	87
Number of pages	15
Journal	The Astronomical Journal
Volume	162
Issue number	3
Early online date	3 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0432
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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Exoplanet astronomy
Mini Neptunes
Radial velocity
Transit photometry
astro-ph.EP

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Burt, J. A., Dragomir, D., Mollière, P., Youngblood, A., Muñoz, A. G., McCann, J., Kreidberg, L., Huang, C. X., Collins, K. A., Eastman, J. D., Abe, L., Almenara, J. M., Crossfield, I. J. M., Ziegler, C., Rodriguez, J. E., Mamajek, E. E., Stassun, K. G., Halverson, S. P., Villanueva, S. J., ... Brasseur, C. E. (2021). TOI-1231 b: a temperate, Neptune-sized planet transiting the nearby M3 dwarf NLTT 24399. The Astronomical Journal, 162(3), Article 87. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0432

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