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A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134

F. Rescigno, G. Hébrard, A. Vanderburg, A. W. Mann, A. M. J. Mortier, S. Morrell, L. A. Buchhave, K. A. Collins, C. R. Mann, C. Hellier, R. D. Haywood, R. D. West, M. Stalport, N. Heidari, D. R. Anderson, C. X. Huang, M. López-Morales, P. Cortés-Zuleta, H. M. Lewis, X. Dumusque, I. Boisse, P. Rowden, A. Collier Cameron, M. Deleuil, M. Vezie, F. A. Pepe, X. Delfosse, D. Charbonneau, K. Rice, O. D. S. Demangeon, S. N. Quinn, S. Udry, T. Forveille, J. N. Winn, A. Sozzetti, S. Hoyer, S. Seager, T. G. Wilson, S. Dalal, E. Martioli, S. Striegel, W. Boschin, D. Dragomir, A. F. Martínez Fiorenzano, R. Cosentino, A. Ghedina, L. Malavolta, L. Affer, B. S. Lakeland, B. Nicholson, S. Foschino, A. Wünsche, K. Barkaoui, G. Srdoc, J. Randolph, B. Guillet, D. M. Conti, M. Ghachoui, M. Gillon, Z. Benkhaldoun, F. J. Pozuelos, M. Timmermans, E. Girardin, S. Matutano, P. Bosch-Cabot, A. Jiménez Muñoz, R. Forés-Toribio

Abstract
We present the characterization of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.2292005 ± 0.0000063 d orbit and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50-0.25+0.39 d orbit around the moderately active, bright (mv = 8.9 mag) K5V star TOI-2134. Based on our analysis of five sectors of TESS data, we determine the radii of TOI-2134b and c to be 2.69 ± 0.16 R for the inner planet and 7.27 ± 0.42 R for the outer one. We acquired 111 radial-velocity (RV) spectra with HARPS-N and 108 RV spectra with SOPHIE. After careful periodogram analysis, we derive masses for both planets via Gaussian Process regression: 9.13-0.76+0.78 M for TOI-2134b and 41.89-7.83+7.69 M for TOI-2134c. We analysed the photometric and RV data first separately, then jointly. The inner planet is a mini-Neptune with density consistent with either a water-world or a rocky core planet with a low-mass H/He envelope. The outer planet has a bulk density similar to Saturn’s. The outer planet is derived to have a significant eccentricity of 0.67 from a combination of photometry and RVs. We compute the irradiation of TOI-2134c as 1.45 ± 0.10 times the bolometric flux received by Earth, positioning it for part of its orbit in the habitable zone of its system. We recommend further RV observations to fully constrain the orbit of TOI-2134c. With an expected Rossiter–McLaughlin (RM) effect amplitude of 7.2 ± 1.3 m s-1⁠, we recommend TOI-2134c for follow-up RM analysis to study the spin–orbit architecture of the system. We calculate the Transmission Spectroscopy Metric, and both planets are suitable for bright-mode Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) atmospheric characterization.

Keywords
methods: data analysis, techniques: photometric, techniques: radial velocities, planets and satellites: detection, stars: activity, stars: individual (TOI-2134, TIC 75878355, G 204-45)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume 527, Issue 3, Page 22
2024 January

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Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia