Bibcode
Leonardi, P.; Santerne, A.; Borsato, L.; Grouffal, S.; Mann, C. R.; Piotto, G.; Collins, K. A.; Tamburo, P.; Kawai, Y.; Stephens, D. C.; García-Mejía, J.; Bryant, E. M.; Zieliński, K. Sz.; Bayliss, D.; Charbonneau, D.; de Leon, J. P.; Fernández-Rodríguez, G.; Fukui, A.; Hintz, E. G.; Horne, K.; Isogai, K.; Jenkins, J. S.; Narita, N.; Sefako, R.; Shporer, A.; Schwarz, R. P.; Srdoc, G.; Wheatley, P.; Williams, J. B.; Fernández Fernández, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Fecha de publicación:
8
2026
Revista
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0
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Descripción
It is inherently challenging to characterize long-period transiting exoplanets because the transit events are rare and last long. These systems provide unique insights into planetary formation, migration, the detection of exomoons, and primordial atmospheres by occupying a sparsely populated region of the exoplanet parameter space, however. The complexity increases further for long-period planets near mean-motion resonances, where transit timing variations (TTVs) can reach amplitudes of several hours to days. We present a coordinated space- and ground-based observing campaign using photometry from NEOSSat, multiple LCOGT sites, MuSCAT, MuSCAT3, Tierras, and NGTS to capture the 19-hour transit of the long-period giant exoplanet HIP 41378 f (P ≍ 542 d, R ≍ = 9.5 R⊕) on 31 October 2025. Our transit analysis constrains the time of inferior conjunction to TC = 2460980.888 ± 0.029 BJDTDB, occurring ∼7 hours earlier than predicted from its linear ephemeris. This significant offset is consistent with the previously reported TTVs of HIP 41378 f, confirming it as the longest-period exoplanet known to exhibit measurable TTVs. By combining this new precise measurement with the transit timings of the two outer planets in the system (HIP 41378 d and HIP 41378 e), we performed a dynamical modeling of the system using the N-body integrator TRADES, refined the ephemeris of HIP 41378 f, and predict future transit events for all three outer transiting planets.