K2-260 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and K2-261 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star
/ Authors
Marshall C. Johnson, F. Dai, F. Dai, A. B. Justesen, D. Gandolfi, A. Hatzes, G. Nowak, G. Nowak, M. Endl, W. Cochran
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D. Hidalgo, D. Hidalgo, N. Watanabe, H. Parviainen, H. Parviainen, T. Hirano, T. Hirano, S. Villanueva, J. Prieto-Arranz, J. Prieto-Arranz, N. Narita, E. Pallé, E. Pallé, E. Guenther, O. Barragán, T. Trifonov, P. Niraula, P. Macqueen, J. Cabrera, S. Csizmadia, P. Eigmüller, S. Grziwa, J. Korth, M. Pätzold, Alexis M. S. Smith, S. Albrecht, R. Alonso, R. Alonso, H. Deeg, H. Deeg, A. Erikson, M. Esposito, M. Fridlund, M. Fridlund, A. Fukui, N. Kusakabe, M. Kuzuhara, J. Livingston, P. M. Rodríguez, P. M. Rodríguez, D. Nespral, D. Nespral, C. Persson, T. Purismo, S. Raimundo, H. Rauer, H. Rauer, I. Ribas, Motohide Tamura, V. V. Eylen, J. Winn
/ Abstract
We present the discovery and confirmation of two new transiting giant planets from the Kepler extended mission K2. K2-260 b is a hot Jupiter transiting a V = 12.7 F6V star in K2 Field 13, with a mass and radius of M = 1.39-0.06+0.05M⊙and R = 1.69 ± 0.03 R. The planet has an orbital period of P = 2.627 d, and a mass and radius of MP= 1.42-0.32+0.31MJand RP= 1.552-0.057+0.048RJ. This is the first K2 hot Jupiter with a detected secondary eclipse in the Kepler bandpass, with a depth of 71 ± 15 ppm, which we use to estimate a geometric albedo of Ag~ 0.2. We also detected a candidate stellar companion at 0.6 arcsec from K2-260; we find that it is very likely physically associated with the system, in which case it would be an M5-6V star at a projected separation of ~400 au. K2-261 b is a warm Saturn transiting a bright (V = 10.5) G7IV/V star in K2 Field 14. The host star is a metal rich ([Fe/H] = 0.36 ± 0.06), mildly evolved 1.10-0.02+0.01M⊙star with R = 1.65 ± 0.04 R. Thanks to its location near the main-sequence turn-off, we can measure a relatively precise age of 8.8-0.3+0.4Gyr. The planet has P = 11.633 d, MP= 0.223 ± 0.031 MJ, and RP= 0.850-0.022+0.026RJ, and its orbit is eccentric (e = 0.39 ± 0.15). Its brightness and relatively large transit depth make this one of the best-known warm Saturns for follow-up observations to further characterize the planetary system.
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society