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Dawson, Rebekah I.; Huang, Chelsea X.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Collins, Karen A.; Sha, Lizhou; Armstrong, James; Conti, Dennis M.; Collins, Kevin I.; Evans, Phil; Gan, Tianjun; Horne, Keith; Ireland, Michael; Murgas, Felipe; Myers, Gordon; Relles, Howard M.; Sefako, Ramotholo; Shporer, Avi; Stockdale, Chris; Žerjal, Maruša; Zhou, George; Ricker, G.; Vanderspek, R.; Latham, David W.; Seager, S.; Winn, J.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Bouma, L. G.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Daylan, Tansu; Doty, John P.; Dynes, Scott; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Rose, Mark; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Yu, Liang
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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 158, Issue 2, article id. 65, 13 pp. (2019).
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Warm, large exoplanets with 10–100 day orbital periods pose a
major challenge to our understanding of how planetary systems form and
evolve. Although high eccentricity tidal migration has been invoked to
explain their proximity to their host stars, a handful reside in or near
orbital resonance with nearby planets, suggesting a gentler history of
in situ formation or disk migration. Here we confirm and characterize a
pair of warm, large exoplanets discovered by the TESS Mission orbiting
K-dwarf TOI-216. Our analysis includes additional transits and transit
exclusion windows observed via ground-based follow-up. We find two
families of solutions, one corresponding to a sub-Saturn-mass planet
accompanied by a Neptune-mass planet and the other to a Jupiter in
resonance with a sub-Saturn-mass planet. We prefer the second solution
based on the orbital period ratio, the planet radii, the lower free
eccentricities, and libration of the 2:1 resonant argument, but cannot
rule out the first. The free eccentricities and mutual inclination are
compatible with stirring by other, undetected planets in the system,
particularly for the second solution. We discuss prospects for better
constraints on the planets’ properties and orbits through
follow-up, including transits observed from the ground.
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